Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday, while Democrats are resolutely opposed. Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a continuing resolution and avert a partial government shutdown. Despite some hesitation, no Republican lawmakers have outright opposed the bill. […]
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Fresh from a run through federal agencies that saw budgets (and heads) exploding all over Washington, Elon Musk and the DOGE team have turned their Starlink satellite and aimed its powerful laser at the most inflated portion of the unofficial “shadow” bureaucracy: government consultants. This has the biggest names in the business – like Booz […]
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Topline: While the Department of Government Efficiency has taken aim at wasteful spending throughout the federal government, so far it has not set its sights on earmarks. The previous ban on earmarks that lasted from 2011 to 2021 brought $141 billion in savings, according to new analysis from OpenTheBooks.com. It’s a crucial area of waste […]
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Bad news. Unemployment increased in the U.S. by 203,000 in February as 588,000 fewer people reported having jobs, according to the latest data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey. That means the economy is slowing down, as has been expected after overheating from high inflation for four years as a result of […]
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President Donald Trump is locked in a lengthy battle with a slate of foreign-aid recipients dead-set on unlocking billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money, after his executive order last month temporarily froze the foreign-aid spigot until his administration could vet the process. Trump issued his executive order freezing foreign aid until his administration – […]
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I’m old school. I think one should win political arguments using facts and logic. I wouldn’t last a moment with today’s Democrats. They are more like a vaudeville act than proper advocates. I guess that’s because they don’t really have any logical arguments. I regret to inform you that former NIH Director Francis Collins, who […]
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A new Trump administration Justice Department could enforce a federal court’s ruling requiring only ballots arriving on or before Election Day to be counted, voter integrity advocates said. Just weeks before last November’s election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Mississippi that federal law requires mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day. Mississippi […]
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The Democrat Party is controlled by the woke Left and one seismic election loss isn’t going to change that. Right now, they are in chaos and looking for answers about how to wiggle their way back into power. On one hand, you have congressional Democrats making fools of themselves by using the absurd protest tactics of […]
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I’ll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services), into universities and para-educational organizations (such as the Department […]
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Joining Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed’s partisan handwringing over President Trump’s firing of senior military leaders (see Reed’s Feb. 22 Washington Post op-ed), five former Secretaries of Defense posted an “Open Letter” on Feb. 27 urging Congress to “investigate” Trump’s decisions. “In the meantime,” they write, “Senators should refuse to confirm any new Defense Department […]