What Your Congressman Isn’t Reading Could Be Costing You Money
How much does it cost to run the Senate hair salon? Lawmakers say they want to know. Or do they? Since its earliest days, Congress… Read More
If Obama Could Replicate Reagan Recovery, Economy Would Be about $17,000 Bigger Per Family
What happens to an economy when you do just about everything wrong? Say you spend $830 billion on a stimulus stuffed with make-work government-jobs programs… Read More
Federal Spending in Action: House Releases Three Spending Bills for 2015
The House Appropriations Committee, headed by Hal Rogers (R–KY), has completed three drafts of the 12 annual spending bills and expects to bring two of… Read More
CBO Report Shows President’s Budget Relies on Rosy Economic Assumptions
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), total deficits under President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal would be $1.7 trillion higher than the administration’s previous… Read More
Ryan Budget’s Transportation Takeaway: Give States More Flexibility and Control
Why does House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget proposal matter to you? Because it would empower citizens and state and local governments, not… Read More
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Religious Freedom in the House Budget
The budget presented by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R–WI) takes a positive view of religious freedom, calling for funding and reforms that advance… Read More
Ryan Budget: Some Smart Reforms, but Education Spending Continues Apace
The budget presented by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R–Wis.) provides a topline function 500 (spending on education, training, employment, and social services) budget… Read More
A Path to Balance in Five Steps: What to Look for in the Ryan Budget
The House Budget Committee will deliver its budget resolution—which would eliminate the deficit within 10 years—ahead of Congress’s statutory deadline of April 15. The Senate,… Read More
The Gamble Washington Is Taking on National Security
President Obama is shrinking America’s armed forces, and his admirers say: “Why not?” The U.S. always draws down its military forces at the end of… Read More
President Obama’s Budget Shows the Need for FEMA Reform
In President Obama’s newly released budget request, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) receives a $941.5 million increase, largely driven by an $812 million increase… Read More
President’s Defense Budget Request: Making the U.S. Less Secure
The President’s fiscal year 2015 defense budget request demonstrates the Administration’s willingness to sacrifice America’s leadership while the world grows more dangerous. If the President… Read More
A Quick Guide to Obama’s 2015 Budget
Yesterday, Heritage experts dove into President Obama’s new budget proposal. Check out our infographic to see just a few of the disturbing things they found…. Read More
Happy Fat (Budget) Tuesday from President Obama
While many Americans are celebrating Fat Tuesday in anticipation of the season of Lent that begins tomorrow, the President has dropped a brand new “fat”… Read More
Only One of These Makes the Country Work
The contrast could not be more stark. While President Obama releases his ideal budget for the year today—lauding government as the source of success in… Read More
Obama’s Austerity Myth
The Obama administration put out the word this weekend that the president’s new budget will end several years of “austerity” in Washington. Come again? Austerity?… Read More
Where’s the Bad News on the Deficit? Here It Is.
The Washington press corps was all atwitter yesterday with the news that the budget deficit is shrinking and the red ink will hit a seven-year… Read More
Get Ready For a Year of ‘Inaction’ On the National Debt
President Obama had an opportunity to satisfy the vast majority of voters by making the national debt a “high priority” in his State of the… Read More
U.S. Debt Poses a Greater Barrier to Economic Opportunity Than Income Inequality
President Obama has made income inequality the forefront issue on his 2014 agenda. However, more government is not the solution to increasing economic opportunity in… Read More
No More Band-Aids for Defense Acquisition
Last week Admiral Mullen highlighted the national security consequences posed by the national debt as he keynoted Concerned Veterans for America’s fifth and final event… Read More
Heritage Live: What You Need to Know About the Trillion-Dollar Omnibus Spending Bill
Members of Congress are preparing to vote on the $1.012 trillion omnibus spending bill as early as today. Released less than two days ago and… Read More
No More Spending Cuts to Make? Heritage Expert Says There Are Plenty
Congress is close to releasing a massive spending bill to fund the federal government, and Heritage budget expert Romina Boccia says there is plenty of… Read More
What to Expect from the Trillion-Dollar Omnibus
Lawmakers in charge of funding the government with taxpayer dollars are getting closer every day to finishing their work on the trillion-dollar-plus fiscal year 2014… Read More
Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013
The latest budget deal, passed by a bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate, suggests that Washington agrees with House Minority Leader Nancy… Read More
What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory. Lawmakers have hemmed and hawed about making any… Read More
The Ryan–Murray Budget Deal: Unnecessary Pain for Americans
The controversial budget deal reached by Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D–WA) has been criticized by experts on both sides of the… Read More
Spending Caps Have Worked, but Ryan-Murray Budget Would Lift Them
In terms of cutting government spending, the Budget Control Act’s spending caps and sequestration have been an unparalleled success story in recent years. And yet,… Read More
Poll: 65 Percent of Americans Think Congress Can Find More Spending Cuts
As the Senate prepares to take up the new House-passed budget that undoes sequester cuts and increases spending, a clear bipartisan majority of American voters—65… Read More
The Budget Deal’s Sneaky Tax Increases
The congressional budget deal includes some “user fees.” For the Washington establishment, that’s apparently the politically correct way of telling Americans they’ll be paying more… Read More
The Budget Deal — and Why We’re $17 Trillion in Debt
Country singer Aaron Tippin’s old hit song “You’ve Got to Stand for Something (or You’ll Fall For Anything)” could be the new theme song for… Read More
Budget Conference Spending Cuts: Start with Amtrak Subsidies
A good place for budget conferees to start cutting federal spending would be at Amtrak, the federally subsidized passenger rail service, with its $72 million… Read More
