government-spending

Houston’s Democratic mayor admitted at a meeting last week that the country’s fourth-largest city is “broke." Mayor John Whitmire was elected in December, overwhelmingly defeating Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. ...

This week Congressman Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, introduced a critical new bill that will undoubtedly save millions of American lives. American rats, that is. I’m not kidding. The ...

Is the honeymoon period already over for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson? It might be too early to say that, but it's not too early to say that he's ...

With every little breeze, the offshore wind industry begs for a bailout, according to energy experts who say the Biden administration might be more than happy to throw taxpayers' money ...

When Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman -- a member of the "squad" of far-left representatives -- got caught pulling the fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building of the Capitol ...

Several Republican senators want to break apart President Joe Biden’s $106 billion foreign aid package to put funding for Israel in the fast lane. According to The New York Times, ...

Around 2.8 million people were apprehended entering the southern border in 2023. That's more than the population of 15 states and far more than the populations of many countries around ...

Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz gave conservatives a chuckle Tuesday when he made quip about New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez' corruption indictment to make a point about what's happening ...

A proposed bill backed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to fund defense spending in the next fiscal year went down to defeat Tuesday, a casualty in a House of Representatives ...

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is facing stiff opposition to the latest spending bill and might have to risk his speakership by compromising with Democrats to get it passed, ...

Disgusted at watching vast sums of taxpayer dollars spent on prosecutions she believes are political, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wants to drain the swamp of funds that ...

Floor votes in the House have been canceled for the week as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to quell a Republican revolt from the House Freedom Caucus. The conservative group ...

Like most of her Democratic Party colleagues, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is furious over how much President Joe Biden has agreed to concede in the debt ceiling agreement with ...

They are two Democratic politicians best known by their initials: JFK and AOC. That's where the similarities end. If you need a primer on the differences between the two, just ...

There's something for everyone on the political spectrum to hate about a massive government corporate welfare program for a Chinese corporation in Michigan -- unless you're an elected politician, of ...

NPR is currently having a moment regarding its status on Twitter. Last week, the public radio network stopped tweeting from its main account because it was labeled "U.S. state-affiliated media." ...

President Joe Biden and his administration have been spending $130,000 a day to apply the unused material for the border wall and finish the project. No, wait. What's that? The ...

Who's going to end up paying for the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment? Well, if Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has anything to say about it, part of the money ...

Having convinced a sufficient number of voters that MAGA Republicans constitute the single greatest threat to our "democracy" to minimize his party's losses in the midterms, President Joe Biden has ...

While thousands of irrelevant politicians, industrialists and hangers-on met in Davos, Switzerland, striving for a modicum of positive reinforcement that their annual soiree actually stood for some awe-inspiring principle, the ...