The Democrats’ $1.5 trillion entitlement spending bill includes billions for left-wing environmental activists’ pet projects, including planting more trees in low-income neighborhoods to create tree equity.
The Democrats plan to drop paid leave from President Biden’s spending bill due to Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) opposition.
Yellen proposed taxing billionaires’ unrealized capital gains to fund President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion spending bill.
American leaders for life are calling upon fellow citizens to oppose the Democrats’ plan to eliminate the longstanding Hyde Amendment.
A coalition of 22 state attorneys general called upon Congress to restore the Hyde Amendment and prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions.
President Joe Biden detailed his massive infrastructure spending proposal Wednesday, but only about 25 percent of the $2.5 trillion bill funds basic infrastructure, according to a fact sheet summary of the bill. The proposal spends roughly $639 billion on traditional
Friday, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) predicted if President Donald Trump takes a pass and does not sign the $2.3 trillion spending bill, which reportedly includes $1.4 trillion to keep the government open and $900 billion in so-called coronavirus relief, Congress will likely pass a continuing resolution to keep the government running.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touted her plan to give Americans a $600 stimulus check as “significant” Monday, but previously brushed off larger sums as “crumbs.”
American taxpayers still reeling from coronavirus lockdowns will be shelling out billions to foreign countries if Congress passes a $2.3 trillion spending bill unveiled Monday.
The long-awaited coronavirus relief bill, purportedly aimed to help Americans and their small businesses as the Chinese coronavirus continues to grip the nation, would make illegal streaming a felony — a special interest gift to the entertainment industry.
Several members of Congress are taking to social media to complain about the handful of hours they have to read the 5,593-page spending bill.
Pro-life leaders praised Trump for rejecting coronavirus bill proposals that would force American taxpayers to fund abortion.
The House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Tuesday to keep the federal government open through December 20 with a 231-192.
The fractured House Democrat Conference amid a burgeoning fight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats’ left flank led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), along with disagreements between some Senate Republicans and the Trump administration, threaten to complicate upcoming spending and debt ceiling negotiations between Congress and the White House.
Breitbart News’ Border/Cartel Chronicles Director Brandon Darby slammed the spending resolution passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump last week calling the measure a betrayal to supporters of increased border security. His comments came during an interview on Breitbart News Tonight.
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the proposed spending bill presented to President Donald Trump “will make the border crisis worse” if signed into law.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he continues to urge President Donald Trump to veto the spending bill if it does not contain border wall funding.
The House Freedom Caucus will lead a special order on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening, where its members will push for funding for President Donald Trump’s planned border wall.
The House passed a $850 billion spending bill that would fund the government until December 7, preventing President Donald Trump from potentially shutting down the government to force Congress to partially fund his promised border wall.
House conservatives continue to mull whether to block a combined spending package to push for wall funding for the bill.
Pro-mass immigration GOP mega-donor billionaire Koch brothers are threatening to support Democrats who promote open borders and free trade.
Ann Coulter says the U.S. will, “in one generation,” become South Africa after President Trump signed off on Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill that does not include a single provision from the president’s 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms.
Thirty-nine Democrats supported the bloated 2,232 spending bill while only 25 Senate Republicans voted for the bill. Independent Sen. Angus King also supported the bill.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi trumpeted her party’s successes in the negotiations over the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill in a statement released late Wednesday.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, on Tuesday said there should be no Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty deal contained within the government funding bill coming up in January.
President Donald Trump and congressional GOP leadership will put their governance and deal-making skills to the test in January when a nasty spending battle likely to include some form of major immigration policy change comes to fruition.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is planning to slip amnesty for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens living in the United States into a spending bill, according to House Republicans.
Even if the House passes a clean Harvey relief bill the Senate could return it with debt ceiling increase attached
Congress already faces a daunting legislative session when it returns to Washington on Tuesday. But the massive destruction left in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas and Louisiana adds even more urgency — and fiscal maneuvering — as lawmakers craft a spending bill to keep the federal government operating.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, House colleagues, and some senators are calling on President Trump to preserve DACA for now.
Congress is already facing a massive legislative calendar when it returns to Washington: a spending bill to fund the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, the fate of Obamacare, and tax reform, the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas will be added to the “To Do” list.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is signaling that members of the House Freedom Caucus, which he chairs, are willing to pass a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown, even if it does not include funding for a wall on the U.S. southern border.
Meadows tells Breitbart News that the future of the Republican Party is at stake as Congress reconvenes in September
Congress will face a daunting legislative session when it returns from August recess, including funding for the government and the wall
High stakes battles on nearly every facet of American government and President Donald J. Trump’s agenda come to a head in September, from the debt ceiling to government funding bills to healthcare and tax reform.
The influential American Conservative Union called out the House of Representatives for asking members to vote on a 1,600 page appropriations bill, H.R. 244, only two days after introducing it.
Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh interviewed Vice President Mike Pence about the spending bill expected to be passed by Congress and sent to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
Two top Trump Administration officials took to the White House press briefing podium on Tuesday to push back against Democrats spiking the football on the new spending bill and criticism that the bill doesn’t fund the new border wall that was promised during the President’s election campaign.
Tuesday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he believed the congressional Democrats “cleaned our clock” in the proposed $1 trillion-plus government spending bill. Graham said, “I don’t know if I’m going to vote for the bill
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) touted the controversial spending bill for fiscal year 2017 expected to pass Congress and be signed into law by President Donald Trump. The legislation has been criticized by some Trump allies
