President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leadership have been putting immense pressure of Republican United States House of Representatives and Senate members to approve and send to Trump before the July 4 holiday a large in size and scope
As was easily predictable, all the carrots they hung on the "Big Beautiful Bill" to get House Republicans to vote on it have been stripped from the Senate version. The only thing remaining is the massive increase in debt. As usual, Thomas Massie was
The Senate is making a final push to advance President Trump's signature legislation with a flurry of last-minute changes that stunned Elon Musk and the already besieged clean energy industry while offering new support for fossil fuels.
The US Senate worked through the weekend on the "Big Beautiful Bill." The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump's desk before the July 4th holiday.
How anyone thinks that quintupling the public debt from $29 trillion to $162 trillion over the next three decades is a plausible route to the Golden Age of Prosperity actually extends well beyond our powers of imagination.
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Rand Paul about Washington's failure to address the national debt; his opposition to reckless spending and debt ceiling increases in the Big Beautiful bill; concerns over emergency powers and tariff abu
Vacuous Pete read the US DoD FY 26 posture statement last week, explaining how the feds will spend the new trillion dollar US defense budget. The SecDef seems unaware of the idiocy, and the irony, of what he presented to Congress.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who's been opposed to President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" over its $5 trillion debt ceiling price tag, told NBC's "Meet The Press" he could come around if the debt ceiling is separated and put to a stan
We have assigned far too many responsibilities to the federal government, several of which they have no business having in the first place. Overspending follows.
LA Riots Gives It The Fuel It Needs to Pass. What is really behind the riots in Los Angeles? Owen Shroyer reviews the question and wonders if it is not all the same thing we've gone through before. We review all the protest footage as well as the r
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has proposed a constitutional amendment that would make all members of Congress ineligible to run for reelection "whenever inflation exceeds 3%" or when the deficit exceeds 3% of gross domestic product (GDP).
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee and five others have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) of more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions, according to Fox Business.
From the Tom Woods Letter: It began perhaps with Elon's concerns about the tariff program, but accelerated dramatically when he came out against the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
Trump had told reporters before the meeting that the bill is not cutting "anything meaningful (from Medicaid)," and instead was focused on "waste, fraud and abuse."
Like clockwork, the left-wing media jumped on board, echoing the usual hysteria. But this time, even some on the right are getting squeamish, raising concerns over spending, scope, and structure.
Since 1999, the US empire has been doing the things that empires do when they get long in the tooth and short in the purse -- with unnecessary military spending and unnecessary wars.