When Mitch McConnell sold out to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi by giving Democrats a waiver on the filibuster, and therefore, allowing them to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote, he helped advance Joe Biden’s big government,…
For the past few weeks, Republicans have been engaged in a make-believe game of forcing Democrats to reduce spending and avoid default on the national debt by raising the debt ceiling, but the reality is that neither side wants to…
One of the reasons Trump and “conservative” Republicans lost control of the House in 2018 and all of Washington in 2020 had to do with the lie that they would tackle the national debt and bring spending under control after…
One of the reasons Trump and the Republican Party lost control after the 2018 midterms had to do with Washington’s spending addiction. Instead of reining in government spending as they had promised to do, Republicans set records and exploded the…
Good news, America! Republicans are ready to reduce government spending and tackle the national debt after doing the exact opposite over the past four years . . . Really! Sure, Donald Trump boldly claimed during the GOP presidential primaries in…
During the GOP presidential primaries in 2016, Donald Trump boldly claimed he would not only rein in government spending, he promised in an interview with the Washington Post to eliminate the national debt — a mere $19 trillion at the…
The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) was the brainchild of then-House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and was praised by the now-retired congressman as a “positive step forward in getting government spending under control.” According to Ryan, his bill…
