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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…
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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…
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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…
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