Health CareNews
Will Republicans Hand Dems a Major Health Care Concession?
Will Republicans in Congress hand Democrats a massive health care concession to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month? That’s a question… Read More
PoliticsNews
Schumer Threatens Government Shutdown, Something He, Other Senate Dems Decried as ‘Chaos’ in March
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said this week that he’s ready to force a federal government shutdown at the end of the month if… Read More
PoliticsNews
Partisan Rancor Pervades Democrat Leaders’ Letter to GOP Seeking Budget Talks
Democrat leaders in Congress invited their Republican counterparts to government funding negotiations in a Thursday letter, albeit one brimming with partisan accusations of legislative malfeasance…. Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Democrats Could Shut Down the Government to Stop Trump
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal was the first to report that the White House would be sending another rescissions package—the same mechanism that President Donald… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Very Impressed’: Trump Thanks Schumer for Whipping Dems’ Support of Spending Bill
President Donald Trump thanked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for getting Democrats on board with the Republican spending package to keep the federal government… Read More
PoliticsNews
Government Shutdown Will Be on Democrats, Senate GOP Leader Says
Senate Majority Leader John Thune didn’t mince words at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. If a government shutdown happens, the South Dakota Republican said, it… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Come Out Swinging’: GOP Members of Congress Anticipate Trump’s Address
Republican members of Congress shared with The Daily Signal what they expect—and hope—to hear in President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress… Read More
PoliticsNews
Trump’s Plan to Prevent Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump has an 11th-hour plan to avoid a federal government shutdown—a continuing resolution that would renew government funding until the end of the… Read More
LawCommentary
A Government ‘Shutdown’ Isn’t Really a Shutdown. Here Are the Facts.
The current battle in Congress over the continuing resolution to fund the government is a fight worth having to stop the bloated spending of the… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Explaining the Beef Between Donald Trump and Chip Roy
The drama surrounding the government funding deadline escalated Thursday when President-elect Donald Trump attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The shocking development came as Trump insisted… Read More
EconomyCommentary
No, Republicans, the Sky Won’t Fall If There’s a Government Shutdown
Hey, Republicans. The sky will not fall if there’s a government shutdown. The government was shut down six times during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Over 20… Read More
PoliticsNews
Trump, Vance Throw Curveball Into Spending Fight as Hill Scrambles to Fund Government
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance want House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans on Capitol Hill to play hardball with obstructionist Democrats in… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Joe Biden’s Work-From-Home Bureaucracy
WASHINGTON—“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
3 Reasons Congress Can’t Seem to Dismount From Government Shutdown Merry-Go-Round
We’re in a new year, but the headlines from Capitol Hill feel old. Once again, Congress has been debating its annual spending bills. And once… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Go Ahead, Shut It Down!
This week, Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There’s so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
4 Key Things You Need to Know About Government Shutdowns
With the nation’s capital fixated on tense negotiations over funding the federal government, apocalyptic warnings over a possible shutdown are filling headlines. Time is “running short,” we’re in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
How Border Crisis Became Focus of Federal Spending Debate and What Elon Musk Has to Do With It
The crisis at the U.S. southern border is now being closely linked to Congress passing annual spending bills. Congress has until Saturday to pass the… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Republican Leaders Silent as Democrats Undermine House Efforts to Fight Border Crisis Amid Shutdown Battle
Senate Republican leaders have declined to comment on the bill that Senate Democrats introduced to fund the government through Nov. 17 that avoids a government… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Network ‘News’ Predictably Blames Republicans in ‘Shutdown Showdown’
The nightly “news” cannot be expected to offer you an “explainer” on anything happening in Washington. Their ratings gurus would tell them that trying to… Read More
PoliticsNews
The Battle to Prevent a Government Shutdown Revolves Around One Key Issue, McCarthy Says
If President Joe Biden wishes to avoid a government shutdown, he should sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and hammer out a plan to… Read More
To Lead HHS, Obama Picks Overseer of Government Shutdown Decisions
President Obama’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services led the federal government’s response during last year’s “shutdown”—which included officials erecting barricades around… Read More
Economy Health CareSocietyNews
The Research Papers You Relied on the Most in 2013
The Heritage Foundation is dedicated to policy research of the utmost intellectual integrity. This year featured debates on a wide range of policy issues, and… 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
State Department Waste: Booze, Crystal, and a Million-Dollar Stack of Rocks
On the eve of the government shutdown, the State Department was consumed with a very different budget crisis of its own: purchasing vast amounts of… Read More
Debt: Seven out of 10 Voters Think the U.S. Is on the Wrong Track
A recent Peterson Foundation poll showed that 70 percent of registered voters believe that the country is on the wrong path when it comes to… Read More
News
I Solemnly Swear to Support the Government?
When lawmakers were debating how to end the federal government shutdown and whether they should authorize Washington to borrow even more money by raising the… Read More
Economy Still Growing Too Slowly
The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) first estimate of economic growth for the third quarter of this year shows an economy that continues to grow… Read More
Chinese Call for “De-Americanization” Is an Empty Suggestion
A recent editorial in the Chinese newspaper Global Times called for “de-Americanization.” Concerned with the American government shutdown and the prospect of the debt ceiling… Read More
News
8 Things You Might Have Missed at Conversations with Conservatives
As the Senate discussed a deal to end the government shutdown, House conservatives on the other side of Capitol Hill tackled the issues under debate… Read More
Exploiting Our National Monuments
Even as the government he led was building a city named for him, General Washington knew that monuments are for citizens, not governments. He wrote… Read More
