In case you missed it, Club for Growth President David McIntosh was a guest on Fox News @ Night on November 5, castigating 13 Republican House Members whose votes allowed the Democrats to pass their enormous $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in the face of certain defeat. McIntosh also took to task Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy … Continue reading McCarthy ‘biggest loser’ in House infrastructure vote, says David McIntosh
Category: Budget
In a letter this week to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the top Republicans on the House and Senate Budget Committees pushed the agency to provide a true cost estimate of the Democrats’ tax and spending reconciliation bill if provisions within the bill were made permanent, as is the intent of Democrats. House Budget Committee … Continue reading Smith, Graham call for CBO score on true cost of Democrat tax and spend bomb
Upon news that congressional Democrats today put a nicotine tax provision back into President Biden’s ever-changing “Build Back Better” plan (ostensibly aimed at COVID-19 relief, economic recovery measures, and infrastructure investment), CEI Senior Fellow Michelle Minton offered a statement on why this is such a bad idea: “Congress’s desire to find revenue to pay for … Continue reading Addicted to cash, Democrats sneak nicotine tax back into spending bomb
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), introduced the Energy Accountability Act. This legislation will prohibit borrowers that have previously defaulted on a Department of Energy (DOE) loan from applying for another loan through DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO). “The Energy Accountability Act will help … Continue reading Barrasso introduces bill protecting taxpayers from failed green energy scams
U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) this week released a new memo detailing how the Democrats’ multitrillion dollar tax and spending bill would violate the Hyde Amendment and radically expand taxpayer funding for abortions. “Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to spending their hard-earned tax dollars on funding abortions. The Democrats’ big government, reckless … Continue reading Memo lays out how Democrat tax and spend bomb shreds federal law to expand taxpayer funded abortion
In a hurried attempt to deliver on the multitude of promises made by Democrats over the last nine months, President Biden unveiled a so-called “framework” for a socialist tax and spending spree. A preliminary analysis by House Budget Committee Republicans has found that the Democrats’ proposed agenda will cost at least $4.6 trillion and could … Continue reading Analysis confirms Dem spending bomb, propped up by gimmicks and fake offsets, costs $4.6 trillion, adds $3 trillion in debt
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Todd Young (R-Indiana), Ranking Member of the Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy, pressed the Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration on when Congress can expect to receive the annual report on the Supplemental Security Income … Continue reading Why is Biden not releasing key information on Social Security’s stability?
Democrats are set to blow past yet another arbitrary deadline in their misguided quest to jam through their reckless tax and spending spree. The sticking point this time is a tax hike on U.S. job creators. Some Democrats believed this tax hike was the solution to their problems, but other Democrats quickly threw cold water … Continue reading Democrats splintering over unpopular socialist tax hikes
A whole chunk of money the Democrats’ proposal supposedly sets aside for patient healthcare would actually finance ultra-generous benefits for members of the powerful, left-wing union, the SEIU.
With inflation on pace to reach its highest level in nearly forty years, President Biden and Washington Democrats are attempting to ram through a 2,400 page, multi-trillion tax and spending agenda that will all but guarantee to fuel the fire of inflation and further harm working families.
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