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The Senate will hold hearings on the debt ceiling bill passed by the GOP-led House starting this week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on Monday.
Published: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 6:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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The United States risks defaulting on its debt as early as June 1, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced on Monday.
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 9:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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THE PRESIDENT: Well, good afternoon. Today, we received another outstanding jobs report: 528,000 jobs were added just last month to this country’s employment. 528,000 jobs.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Willis Krumholz argues in a Federalist column that huge federal deficits “kill blue-collar America.” The federal government’s response to COVID-19 hasn’t helped.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The coronavirus is reminding everyone that you cannot rely on government and that ultimately it is the private sector that will provide the solutions.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage is a unique feature of the American health care system.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 800 gathered in Raleigh this week to address the Opioid epidemic. Five lives are lost each day and more than 13,000 deaths occurred between 1999 and 2017 due to Opioids.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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State Rep. Greg Murphy will face Joan Perry July 9 in a runoff for the Republican nomination in the 3rd U.S. Congressional District.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A few years back I attended a presentation by David Walker, former Comptroller General of the United States. At the time Walker was becoming quite well known for making a frightening and compelling case as to why the United States needed to get its financial house in order
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 5:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I'd have structured it a bit differently and combined it with budget cuts. But even as is, the federal tax reform enacted by Congress and signed by President Trump will enhance economic growth for the nation as a whole, and for North Carolina in particular
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Right after the 2016 elections, I observed that the combination of Donald Trump’s rise and continuing GOP strength across the landscape of American politics had yielded three distinct Republican parties: a populist and personality-driven White House party
Published: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a valid argument against federal tax reform - an argument that didn't apply to North Carolina's path-breaking reforms - but congressional Democrats and their ideological allies are spending most of their time repeating misleading talking points about the bill
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2017 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced an investment switch Tuesday that would move billions from the state retirement system to internal control
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (R-NC) responded to the Government of Iraq's issuance of a $1 billion 5-year bond that, courtesy of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is backed by a full faith and credit guarantee from the United States government
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2017 @ 9:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) commented on a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which estimates that the federal deficit will climb to $544 billion this year, up $105 billion over last year’s deficit.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 6:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Barry Obama likes it. Renee Ellmers likes it. John Boehner LOVES IT. So does Nancy Pelosi. (We should ALL be worried.)
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As North Carolina’s legislative session draws to a close and we enter the last quarter of the 2014 campaign, Democrats are hoping it will be a rerun of 1998. Republicans are hoping that it will be a rerun of 2010.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 11:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any plan for rejuvenating North Carolina's economy by drawing down and spending more federal money is a plan for failure.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the run-up to the federal budget sequester, President Barack Obama tipped his hand about a seemingly small matter that will actually have a big effect on his signature domestic-policy initiative, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to four years of massive federal deficits, tax cuts scheduled to expire this month, and lackluster economic growth.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Obama administration has asked states to let them know by THIS FRIDAY their plans for setting up health care exchanges at the state level.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @ 9:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Since the onset of the Great Recession, federal legislators have rapidly expanded debt-financed aid-to-state programs.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Responding to an ad in last Wednesday’s Bertie Ledger that was critical of the Republican Party, I’d like to thank the gentleman who wrote it, because the insulting rhetoric and lies prove something that many people are now beginning to realize.
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2012 @ 10:43 pm
By: Garry Terry
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There's a great deal of magic incantation in traditional fantasy literature, of course. Think of the Evil Queen consulting her spellbook to transform her appearance and concoct her poison apple for Snow White.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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