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    ‘American People Are Sick of It’: House Freedom Caucus Vows to Oppose More Reckless Spending

    Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday vowed to oppose another budget continuing resolution without changes, which they said would only promote more irresponsible spending.  Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a group comprising conservative Republicans, said the spending binge is driving up inflation.  “We are not interested in a…
    Fred Lucas
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    Mayors Who Cut Police Budgets Get Their Own Security Details

    Police departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as those mayors cut funding and positions in those departments. The Los Angeles Police Department’s more than $1.8 billion budget initially was cut by $150 million in 2020 (a portion of the cut was restored in 2021), eliminating…
    Adam Andrzejewski
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    House Conservatives Say Any Spending Bill Must Address Border Security, DOJ Weaponization

    The House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers in the House, outlined Monday what conditions would need to be met for it to vote for a new spending bill. The group said spending bills should include provisions on border security, the “unprecedented weaponization” of the Justice Department and the FBI, and the Pentagon’s “cancerous…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Congressman Threatens to Cut DHS and DOJ Funding Ahead of Spending Fight

    Texas Congressman Chip Roy says he will not approve funding for the Department of Homeland Security or Justice Department unless “changes” are made.   “And I can tell you right now for all my colleagues, I will not vote for a continuing resolution or any funding for DHS or DOJ if we don’t get changes…
    Virginia Allen
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    Welcome Spending Cuts and Major Missed Opportunities in House Spending Bills

    The U.S. House of Representatives left Washington July 27 for its lengthy summer recess having only passed one of 12 spending bills required to fund the government for the upcoming fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. While all 12 bills have welcome reductions, they lack the more substantial cuts necessary to trim the deficit and stop…
    David Ditch
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    Government Doesn’t Have Right to ‘Take Whatever It Wants of Your Labors,’ Federal Budget Expert Says

    It’s the duty of Congress to use American tax dollars responsibly, Richard Stern says. American taxpayers deserve to know where their money’s going because “the government doesn’t have the moral right to walk up and take whatever it wants of your labors because a bureaucrat thinks they know better than you how to use the…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Introduce Pro-Life Budget as 1-Year Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Reversal Approaches

    The Republican Study Committee has introduced “the most pro-life congressional budget ever produced, with dozens of policies that support our fight to protect and uphold the sanctity of life,” Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., told The Daily Signal. The budget’s release on Wednesday comes just 10 days before the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in…
    Virginia Allen
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    Our Fake Spending Debates

    This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to raise the debt limit. The breakthrough came after three months of Biden pledging not to even negotiate over the debt limit. Instead, Biden was forced to concede to a 1% cap on increases for non-military spending, a cutback…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending

    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., released text April 19 of legislation dubbed the Limit, Save, Grow Act. The bill, a focus of internal negotiations among House Republicans, would provide an increase in the federal debt ceiling lasting into next spring in exchange for a package of reforms aimed at lowering future deficits and boosting economic…
    David Ditch
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    10 House Republicans to File Amicus Brief in Suit Seeking to Overturn Omnibus Spending Bill

    House Democrats violated the Constitution in December in approving the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 omnibus spending bill with proxy voting, according to an amicus brief introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Roy, along with nine other Republican members of Congress, were set to submit the amicus brief Tuesday about the harms of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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