The House Budget Committee advanced the Republican budget reconciliation bill Sunday night after three days of negotiations brought enough additional cost-saving proposals to convince four GOP budget hawks to reverse their initial opposition. The bill passed by a 17-16 margin, with all Democrats on the committee voting against it. The bill, if it passes the full House […]
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Give the devil his due: Senator Bernie Sanders never misses an opportunity to remind Americans about our planet’s supposed peril. In a 2023 MSNBC op-ed, he whined: “The climate crisis is not just an environmental issue. It is a matter of justice, of health, of economics, and of national security.” According to Sanders, climate change […]
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When courts issue wrongful injunctions, taxpayers are often left paying for the damage done to their own government. But Reps. Derek Schmidt, R-Kan., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., are introducing a bill on Monday that aims to shift that burden from taxpayers to the plaintiffs seeking these injunctions, forcing the courts to enforce pre-existing federal law. The […]
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Homan: Border crossings down, arrests up, ICE finding missing children U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan addressed a group of Republican lawyers at a national policy conference Friday about the status of President Donald Trump’s three primary goals on illegal immigration. The president gave Homan three main objectives as the administration’s border czar: To secure the […]
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The 2026 U.S. Senate election in Arkansas, scheduled for November 3, will determine the occupant of the Class II seat currently held by Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who first took office in 2015. With Republicans defending 22 of the 35 Senate seats up for grabs and holding a 53-47 majority, Arkansas is a critical part […]
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The rise and fall of left-wing media darling David Hogg demonstrates exactly what the Left is all about and why the Democratic Party is losing young men. Hogg, a 25-year-old gun control activist turned pillow salesman (that’s probably inaccurate since he never actually sold any pillows) turned party organizer clearly aimed to be a mover and shaker in the […]
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Former FBI Director James Comey has always been a jerk. He fostered a “Get Trump” attitude in the Bureau when he was director. And failed to prosecute real crimes as the same time. Now, he’s actually encouraging the assassination of President Trump. UPDATE: James Comey deleted the post and is now pretending like he had […]
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Republicans Scramble to Regroup After Budget Bill Setback Top congressional Republicans are picking up the pieces in the wake of the House Budget Committee’s rejection Friday of leadership’s budget proposals. If one thing’s clear, it’s that leadership will have to seek a compromise with fiscal hard-liners. On Friday, the House Budget Committee voted against advancing the […]
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For the second consecutive month, both consumer and producer prices slowed down, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 2.3 percent and 2.4 percent annually in April, respectively. This despite President Donald Trump’s levying of tariffs since the beginning of his second term that began on January 20. That included the fentanyl and border security […]
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President Donald Trump’s bold economic approach is beginning to ease the burden of crushing inflation and concerns over a recession and his approval rating is on the rise, particularly among working-age young voters and Hispanics according to two new polls. Trump’s approval rating is up two points overall from where it sat in April, and […]