This Is the Worst Budget Deal for GOP Since Bush Violated 'No New Taxes' Pledge

Oct. 29, 2015
Commentary This Is the Worst Budget Deal for GOP Since Bush Violated 'No New Taxes' Pledge Economist Stephen Moore says GOP congressional leaders have declared an unconditional fiscal surrender to President Barack Obama and the left, negotiating a dangerous budget deal that eliminates all of the checks on Washington's spend-and-borrow binge by breaking the budget caps, ending the sequester, and raising the debt ceiling by over $1 trillion. Read More
Commentary How Many Concerts Would Taylor Swift Have to Perform to Pay Off One Day's Interest on the Debt? If Taylor Swift decided she'd help Uncle Sam with some of those interest payments on our $18.1-trillion national debt, she'd have to do a lot of singing. Read More
News Find Out How Your Congressman Voted on the Boehner-Obama Budget Deal "Just in time for Halloween, this legislation is more trick than treat, with phantom savings and a truly terrifying $85 billion in new spending in the first three years," Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., said. Read More
Commentary Is Planned Parenthood Targeting Schoolchildren? That is what parents and voters are asking themselves in Jefferson County, Colo., this week after Planned Parenthood waded into a local recall election aimed at ousting three Republican school board officials in the middle of their terms. Read More
Commentary Lame Ducks, Lame Deal: The Boehner-Obama Budget Plan This is an insult to the American families whose tax dollars pay their salaries, writes Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint. Read More
News Boehner-Obama Budget Deal Uses Same Accounting Gimmick as Obamacare Two conservatives are accusing Republican leaders of using an accounting gimmick in their budget deal—a "trick" that mimics a tactic Democrats employed to pass Obamacare. Read More
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