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President Joe Biden vetoed a measure that would overturn his plan to cancel large amounts of federal student loan debt that could affect tens of millions of borrowers.
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 7:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Saturday to avoid a default on the federal government’s debt by raising the debt ceiling.
Published: Friday, June 16th, 2023 @ 12:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Veteran bank executives are meeting with senior lawmakers and federal officials as the government comes within two weeks of a potential debt default.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 7:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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America is in freefall. Cities are crumbling, with open drug abuse and homeless everywhere, overdose deaths are soaring, there’s a mental health epidemic, and then there are the crises, oh the crises: the border, the federal debt, lack of affordable housing, flat-out unaffordable health care.
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 1:02 am
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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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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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told members of Congress that she has launched “extraordinary measures” to fund the federal government after the debt ceiling was surpassed.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 8:48 am
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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President Joe Biden reportedly plans to extend the pause on federal student loan payments through the summer of 2023 as his student debt cancellation plan faces legal challenges.
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 4:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday from six Republican attorneys general against the Biden administration for its policy to cancel $10,000 in student debt for millions of borrowers.
Published: Sunday, November 27th, 2022 @ 10:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Amidst the fallout from the meager Republican showing on Tuesday came a breath of fresh air, courtesy of one U.S. district court judge in Texas who took a sledgehammer to President Joe Biden’s attempt to bailout certain student loans
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 6:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A federal appeals court temporarily froze President Joe Biden’s (D) controversial student loan bailout Friday evening.
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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Far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defended the Biden administration’s decision to cancel thousands of dollars in federal student loan debt.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 9:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) blasted the Biden administration’s decision to cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt for most borrowers.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 9:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Department of Education settled a class action lawsuit arguing that the agency was ignoring students’ loan cancellation claims — a move that resulted in the nixing of $6 billion in debt.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 11:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Robert Verbruggen of National Review Online pans proposals for the federal government to forgive student loan debt.
Published: Saturday, November 21st, 2020 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Certainly, the most disappointing part of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was that there was no mention of the federal spending crisis or our $23 trillion national debt.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2020 @ 4:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The only thing more worrying than the federal government’s recent announcement that the debt had reached $22 trillion, or 104 percent of GDP, was that it generated such little attention.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:32 am
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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No issue better epitomizes our broken federal government than the debt. And like Democrats, Republicans have failed miserably to control federal spending
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 @ 10:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his long stand against excessive government spending by voting against H.R. 3354
Published: Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 10:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Many experts believe that the United States is facing a student loan crisis. Total student loan debt now exceeds $1.3 billion-more than total credit card debt for the country
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 8:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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During her primary fight with Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton argued that his "free college" promise went too far. Now, however, Clinton has come out with a plan to make public colleges and universities free for families who earn less than $125,000 annually.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The majority of the state's operations are funded through the General Fund. There are, though, some major components of the state's expenditure that are located outside the General Fund. In short, the General Fund amounts to around $20 billion, while total state spending amounts to approximately...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 6:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The upcoming presidential election offers candidates of both major parties a chance to stake out real plans for tackling more than $18 trillion in federal debt.
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea...
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea for
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today North Carolina has paid off the unemployment insurance debt owed to the federal government. That debt was as high as $2.8 billion and stood at $2.5 billion when Governor McCrory took office in January 2013.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against HR. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which passed the House 392-37.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 10:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is bracing for a decision by Federal Communications Commission officials that could overturn the state law placing limits on municipal broadband, potentially saddling local taxpayers with new debt they would not be required to approve.
Published: Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It added to our already out-of-control federal debt. It’s fully funded ObamaCare and amnesty.
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 9:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The unemployment insurance debt owed to the federal government by North Carolina has dropped by nearly $2 billion under the reforms implemented by Governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Funds from the federal government for college flow liberally, but there are limits.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Since the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, many American households and businesses have substantially reduced their indebtedness. That was a rational decision. A key cause of the boom that led to the bust was excessive leverage, itself a product of the Federal Reserve Board's easy-money..
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The GOP establishment has been rolling its collective eyes dismissively at those of us fighting tooth and nail to stop ObamaCare. Now, they're ready to help Big Barry jack up the federal debt even further.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Contrary to recent media reports, North Carolina has taken out federal loans to operate its underfunded unemployment insurance system, and it is the state's obligation to see that $2.5 billion debt is repaid, said Dale Folwell, state assistant secretary of employment security.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 30 members of the North Carolina House of Representatives filed House Joint Resolution 126 last week asking Washington for a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced budget. Forty-nine of our fifty states have some sort of balanced budget or debt limit...
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're in the top ten in the nation -- in terms of unemployment. Of the 19 states STILL indebted to the federal government for repayment of emergency unemployment funds, North Carolina has the third highest debt behind only New York and California.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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