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DHS has cut a total of $12 billion in spending under Trump.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 @ 8:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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and will implement local DOGE type efforts to cut local spending
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2025 @ 11:22 am
By: John Steed
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House GOP hardliners demand that leadership commit to cutting spending or risk losing their votes, setting up a possible government shutdown this fall.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:06 am
By: Daily Wire
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Most Americans favor cutting spending alongside raising the debt ceiling as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) negotiate a deal to avert a U.S. default, according to a recent survey.
Published: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives at the social media firm are spending “most” of their time on various initiatives related to artificial intelligence, according to the company’s chief technology officer.
Published: Monday, May 1st, 2023 @ 4:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Legislative leaders call for new Leandro Judge James Ammons to slice the state's education spending obligation from $677 million to $377 million.
Published: Sunday, April 9th, 2023 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper released his recommended budget for the biennium today. The General Assembly has already begun budget writing, and the Governor’s recommendations, in this case, are purely political.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 11:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The White House intends to cut the federal budget deficit by a total of $3 trillion over the next decade, a reduction that falls short of the $20 trillion in cuts required to balance the budget.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Democrats and their lapdog media allies want the American people to believe that Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is fiscally irresponsible. Why? Well, he wants the federal government to adopt a little bit of fiscal responsibility and cut some spending before raising the debt ceiling.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed that the tax cuts passed under former President Donald Trump have been the “largest contributor” to federal budget deficits over the past few years rather than the spending agenda enacted by President Joe Biden.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 12:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Republicans, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are holding fast to their commitment to cut spending before they will raise the federal debt limit.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 10:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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The federal government’s budget is in such disarray that balancing the books would require a 30% spending cut or a 40% increase in taxes, a recent study found.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 11:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, was joined by House budget chairs Monday, Aug. 9, for a news conference outlining the chamber’s biennial proposal.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“[Expanding Medicaid would] provide health care to tens of thousands of hard-working North Carolinians and save state taxpayers’ millions in the process.”
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Office of State Controller just released its latest General Fund monthly financial report for April.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 2:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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President Donald Trump announced on Monday night that he is signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States as the world continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic that originated in China.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With the Democrats increasingly embracing a federal ban on "assault-style" rifles and a mandatory gun "buy-back" program, Connecticut-based gunmaker Colt announced this week that it is suspending its production of rifles for civilians, including AR-15s, the most popular gun in America.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 4:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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As we go into the 2018 election season, there is a great deal of talk among Republicans, both in the White House and in Congress, to pursue what is being referred to as "tax cuts 2.0."
Published: Thursday, July 19th, 2018 @ 1:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones, a longtime deficit hawk, continued efforts to reign in our nation’s runaway debt, and cosponsored H.R. 5572, the One Percent Spending Reduction Act, also known as the “Penny Plan.”
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 7:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state House approved early Friday morning its proposed budget, which totals $22.9 billion in General Fund spending
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2017 @ 4:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Senate's budget plan would increase state spending at half the rate proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper and include a tax cut package projected to save taxpayers $1 billion over its first two years of implementation
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2017 @ 1:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yesterday, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis following President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven countries for 90 days
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 @ 2:01 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Governor Pat McCrory has received the highest grade on the nonpartisan Cato Institute's Fiscal Responsibility Report Card of America's governors for cutting taxes and controlling state spending.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 1:10 am
By: McCrory Communications
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State Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) voted today in support of the Senate version of the state budget, which cuts taxes, controls the growth of government spending, bolsters the state's savings, and dramatically increases teacher pay.
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 @ 6:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett released the following statement on N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper's high-dollar New York City fundraiser with "America's Worst Governor," Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that he has reached an agreement with Senate and House leaders on the spending amount for a revised state budget. At a morning breakfast meeting with the Governor at the Executive Mansion, House and Senate leadership agreed upon a budget spending amount...
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In the weeks leading up to Walker's February 3 state budget address, the governor leaked his plan to cut the system's budget by $300 million during 2016 and 2017. (The university system made up about 19 percent of the state's overall spending in 2013-15.) The president of the system, Ray Cross...
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 1:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Civitas recently published findings on the cost of a high school diploma in North Carolina and academic performance - and the results undercut the myth that money alone can buy good education.
Published: Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 @ 7:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2015, which cuts military benefits and provides billions of dollars in spending toward President Obama’s unconstitutional expansion of military force in Iraq and Syria.
Published: Thursday, December 4th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democratic congressional candidates Toni Morris and former state Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco espouse similar political beliefs, such as the need to raise taxes while cutting spending.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mainstream media has been regaling us all day with stories about the $20.6 BILLION budget deal reached by the GOP majority in the North Carolina General Assembly. Yay! We've got a budget!
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 4:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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At a time when most hardworking people in Beaufort County are having to cut their spending, on a vote of four to three, the Beaufort County Budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 was approved Monday (6-3-13).
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2013 @ 9:01 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Last night, the North Carolina state Senate unveiled its two year state budget proposal. Total spending included for FY 2013-14 comes to $20.58 billion, which would be roughly $400 million higher than the current year's budget, good for a 2.3 percent increase.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 10:02 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Your car breaks down, and it'll cost $300 to fix. What do you do? Well, perhaps you rearrange your budget and cut back on other spending for a few weeks. Maybe you have room left on...
Published: Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the 'guv-mint' MO' revenue.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A trillion-dollar sequestration that immediately would cut large portions of domestic and military spending likely will be deferred until budget architects can put together a long-term fiscal plan in the new Congress, U.S. Rep. David Price said Monday.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Pentagon budget is a popular target of leftists when the whole concept of cutting spending gets raised. Stories from the 80s about alleged $2000 toilet seats are recycled.
Published: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When pressed to either make cuts in spending, and making better decisions to make wiser decisions in the allocation of our People's scarce resources, Democrats will evoke certain images to assuage any brief consideration of a more practical path.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012 @ 3:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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