|
BBB changed rules to get them off; Democrats want them back
Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Steed
|
|
cost of illegal immigration to taxpayer is a trillion dollars
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2024 @ 8:27 am
By: John Steed
|
|
In the final days of state budget negotiations, there was a pressurized hush around the legislative complex as lawmakers feuded over the sudden addition of legalizing four casinos to the nearly $30 billion state budget.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
In a Tuesday evening press conference at the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced an agreement to abandon, for now, efforts to legalize casinos through the state budget.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The old aphorism was never truer, “laws are like sausages. It’s best not to see them being made.” The big news this week has been the state budget and why, almost three months late, it hasn’t passed.
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2023 @ 1:39 pm
By: Tom Campbell
|
|
State budget writers have once again failed to pass a state budget by the beginning of the fiscal year
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Once again we are midway through July without a state budget that was supposed to begin July 1. Why haven’t they passed a budget on time? Not trying to be snarky, the answer is because they can. The old budget remains in effect until a new one is approved.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Tom Campbell
|
|
The $1.4 billion allocation for a non-profit called NCInnovation in the state Senate’s budget plan has raised some eyebrows. Given that this appropriation to the barely five-year-old non-profit organization would amount to nearly five percent of the entire state General Fund budget, it should.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
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
|
|
The City of Washington flirts with violating NC Statutes on open public meetings.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 10:40 pm
By: Gary Ceres
|
|
While tax increases and utility rate hikes have been stopped, budget shenanigans continue.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 9:32 pm
By: Gary Ceres
|
|
According to heavenly sources, Dave Ramsey will now be stationed outside of the pearly gates to judge people based on how well they stuck to their budget.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:35 pm
By: Babylon Bee
|
|
Leaders in the North Carolina House and Senate announced an agreement on Wednesday, March 8, on a budget amount for the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Christmas will be costly again this year as inflation eats away at your holiday hosting and shopping budget. Food, presents, and travel will all cost more than they did last year.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 6:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
President Joe Biden argued on Friday that his administration was responsible for the largest decrease of the budget deficit in American history, while “mega MAGA trickle-down” policies from Republicans “failed the country.”
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 8:53 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
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
|
|
Jared Bernstein, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Joe Biden, on Monday claimed that the White House has successfully led the charge against inflation and cut the budget deficit.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: Daily Wire
|
|
''China Mitch'' McConnell also opposes
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Steed
|
|
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
New study shows state budgets getting slammed by Medicaid costs
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Steed
|
|
The Republicans of the N.C. General Assembly have once again delivered a budget that cuts taxes for all, leaving even more of North Carolinians hard-earned money in their own pockets.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: Jeff Moore
|
|
North Carolina recently passed the “Coronavirus Relief Act 3.0” with Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature, but it is clear from what happened that the governor did not so much approve of the budget and that he begrudgingly signed it.
Published: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) joined as an original co-sponsor of H. Res 818, which was introduced today by Congressman Ted Budd (NC-13).
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2020 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Education is already a huge issue in North Carolina and Gov. Roy Cooper and Democrats are intent on making it even bigger. Cooper and his party are gambling that the state budget impasse will keep the issue squarely on the front page of North Carolina policy and politics.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 11:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
|
|
In response to the false narrative that has been printed and aired in many venues, I’d like to present the truth, the facts that are without dispute regarding the vote to override Gov. Cooper’s veto of the state budget.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 6:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
It has been 43 days since Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders shared a balanced budget compromise offer to Republican leaders. Republican leaders still have not sent a counteroffer or engaged in budget negotiations.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 5:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders today offered Republican leadership a state budget compromise proposal that would close the health care coverage gap, raise teacher pay, cut taxes for people and guarantee school construction while balancing the budget and saving money in the Rainy Day Fund
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
|
|
In a news release issued Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper’s spokesman made it clear: Medicaid expansion must be part of any General Fund budget he signs.
Published: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper finally sat down with Republican legislative leaders Wednesday, June 19, less than two weeks before the end of the fiscal year, to negotiate a budget.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
The N.C. House, as lawmakers began reviewing the budget May 1, supported a sprawling transportation budget, allocating $2.3 billion for North Carolina’s Highway Fund, and $1.6 billion for the state’s Highway Trust Fund for fiscal year 2019-20.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Text of a Letter From the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Regarding Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Amendments
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
Governor Cooper's spokesperson, Jamal Little, shared the following statement on the NCGA House budget
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 11:47 am
By: Governor's Office
|
|
Republican legislative leaders have reached agreement on a 2019-20 General Fund budget cap of slightly more than $24 billion, shaving about $500 million from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed spending plan
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
|
Yesterday evening, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3), a long-time deficit hawk and a warrior against wasteful spending, voted once again for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (H.J.Res. 2)
Published: Saturday, April 14th, 2018 @ 12:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
|
The humorist P.J. O’Rourke once observed that “giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Based on what Congress just did to “fix” the budget impasse in Washington, O’Rourke owes an apology to tipsy teens across America for the unfair comparison
Published: Monday, February 19th, 2018 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the Administration for requesting that the National Park Service (NPS) provide Swain County with funds to cover all outstanding financial obligations for the North Shore Road settlement as a part of the President's Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposals
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2018 @ 10:38 am
By: Thom Tillis
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) continued his fight against wasteful government spending and voted against H. Con. Res. 71, legislation establishing the congressional budget for fiscal year 2018
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|