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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 | Preston Brashers
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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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