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Trump-onomics is winning for America
Published: Saturday, July 12th, 2025 @ 7:31 am
By: John Steed
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House Freedom Caucus Adopts Hardline Position On Debt Ceiling, Insists On Meaningful Spending ReformMembers of the House Freedom Caucus took a hardline position on Thursday against an increase in the debt ceiling divorced from meaningful reforms to the federal budget.
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2023 @ 11:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Republicans sent letters to protect faith-based entities from discrimination in the federal budget due to their views on traditional marriage.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 2:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The showdown over the future of the federal budget is taking shape as President Joe Biden releases his fiscal year 2024 spending proposal and House Republicans prepare to leverage their new majority to block the plan.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 5:51 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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Senators Renew Push to Amend the U.S. Constitution to Force Annual Balanced Federal Budgets, Fight Debt
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:30 am
By: ENC NOW
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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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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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Fiscal discipline is missing from the battle against elevated inflation, according to a paper published by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget last week.
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 @ 10:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights a new proposal from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Published: Friday, April 23rd, 2021 @ 8:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Federal government spent a record amount of money in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 — last October through December — and chalked up a record spending deficit, leaving American taxpayers on the hook for more goods and services than ever before.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 10:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A bill allowing federal funds to continue flowing to North Carolina hasn’t earned Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature yet, but one political analyst said it would be wise for the governor to let it become law.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2019 @ 11:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An appropriations bill approved by the General Assembly ensures federal money can flow into certain programs as the stalemate over the budget continues.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A move to keep funding state programs that count on federal money is moving through the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s a hard lesson for some parents to learn: Foot the bill every time your adult child runs into financial trouble, and that child is more likely to continue running into trouble.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When North Carolina governors and lawmakers talk about “the state budget,” they rarely tell you the whole truth.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 8:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While the federal government's deficit and debt grow, it seems families and state governments have become better savers during the current recovery
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 8:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicare and Social Security, along with Medicaid, represent a majority of the federal budget each year, and represent mandatory spending
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 6:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project could be in trouble
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2018 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The draft budget completely demolishes any notion of fiscal responsibility. The budget amounts to $4.4 trillion. It's an Obama-level budget. And it guarantees a deficit of $832 billion in 2018, $984 billion in 2019, $987 billion in 2020, $916 billion in 2021, $908 billion in 2022, and $778 billion
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 1:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Appearing on CBS Face the Nation Sunday, North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows addressed the new federal budget deal in Washington saying the swamp “is obviously deeper.”
Published: Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 5:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Fiscal conservatives continue to haunt the darkened hallways of American politics, every so often materializing to shout "BOO!" at the party in power, only to recede into the shadows as soon as they are called upon to actually govern
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 9:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) signed a bipartisan letter to the President requesting an increase in funding for Alzheimer's research in his fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget request
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 @ 7:46 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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There were enough votes to pass the Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate, for the Federal Budget to not have a lapse in funding, on a simple majority vote; however, failed to win the 60 votes to avoid a Democrat filibuster, and therefore failed here in the literal eleventh hour.
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 1:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his long fight against wasteful government spending and the runaway federal debt by voting against final passage of H. Con. Res. 71, legislation establishing the congressional budget for fiscal year 2018
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2017 @ 1:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump applauds the Senate for passing its FY 2018 Budget Resolution today and taking an important step in advancing the Administration's pro-growth and pro-jobs legislative agenda
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 4:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Republicans have gotten right what Republicans elsewhere have gotten very wrong: how to construct sensible tax cuts and honest, conservative budgets
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2017 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald Trump recently presented his budget. NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes responded below
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 11:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Cooper shared the following statement on the White House's 2018 budget proposal
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 6:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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If you've ever put together a jigsaw puzzle you can understand the task of assembling a state budget. Like a puzzle, one piece of the spending and tax plan builds upon another as lawmakers construct a two-year budget that spends more than $23 billion a year
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 10:12 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC) voted against S. Con. Res. 3, the largest budget ever passed in United States history
Published: Monday, January 16th, 2017 @ 1:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the House followed the Senate by passing The Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, which would repeal ObamaCare and cut the federal deficit by half a trillion dollars over the next decade according to the Congressional Budget Office
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 1:47 am
By: Thom Tillis
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During the "Budget Battle of 1995-1996," which caused a shutdown of much of the federal government for 27 days, I was a freelance reporter for New Jersey's second biggest newspaper.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis talked Obamacare, energy policy, the federal budget, and the Export-Import Bank during a meeting with Americans for Prosperity activists during a luncheon Monday at the Langtree Plantation in Mooresville
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prime example of Tax Avoidance is Wal Mart. Their recent and best scheme yet is their new creation of Shell Corps in another Country which fosters Tax Hiding of Assets.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Last night, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against H. Con. Res. 27, the Fiscal Year 2016 federal budget proposal which passed the House by a vote of 228 to 199.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 6:13 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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During the 1970s and 1980s, America saw a growing federal deficit that caused states to react. North Carolina rewrote its constitution in 1971, and as part of that constitution the state is required to pass a 'balanced budget.' More specifically, the state's total expenditures cannot exceed its...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States could have a constitutional balanced budget amendment within a year, if enough states back a process spelled out by the group Compact for America.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sorry, trick question. No such event ever happened, except in the fevered imagination of liberal editorial writers. While it is true that Republicans, running as fiscal conservatives, took control of the state legislature in 2010 and a majority of North Carolina's county commissions in 2012, the...
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County resolves that there must be a resolution to the federal government's budget impasse in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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