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Latest stab in the back by serial backstabber McConnell
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Steed
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House Republicans introduced an aid package on Monday that would remove millions of dollars allocated to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and direct the same amount of money to Israel.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 12:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) doesn’t like where debt-ceiling negotiations between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden are heading.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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nonpartisan CBO scores Republican compromise debt ceiling increase plan
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 6:54 pm
By: John Steed
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President Joe Biden made the unlikely claim Tuesday that it is Republicans who are pushing for “defunding the police,” despite near universal GOP support for law enforcement and the fact that cutting police budgets was his own party’s rallying cry in 2020.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 8:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called on his fellow Democrats to negotiate with the Republican House majority over the debt ceiling.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 1:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Many North Carolinians breathed a sigh of relief last week when the GOP-led legislature and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a budget for the new biennium.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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
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Governor Roy Cooper is the classic "do as a say not as a do" politician.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Adam Kredo and Jack Beyrer write for the Washington Free Beacon about a new plan from U.S. House Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $25 billion budget, Wednesday, Aug. 26, to expand Medicaid, increase unemployment benefits, give teachers higher bonuses, and cut funding to Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2020 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, denied claims from Democrats and some media outlets that he helped carry out a plan to mislead House Democrats into not showing up to an early morning session so House Republicans could more easily pass a veto override of the budget.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House on Wednesday, Aug. 28, unanimously passed pay raises for state employees.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 6:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley released the following statement:
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It’s been 51 days since Governor Cooper presented a balanced compromise budget offer.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 7:30 am
By: Governor's Office
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis was flanked by N.C. House Speaker Moore, N.C. Senator Berger, and other eastern North Carolina Republican leaders as they highlighted the unacceptable pace at which Governor Cooper has allocated disaster relief for North Carolinians
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 6:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today should be like any other day as children and teachers return to school: reunite with friends, new classes and new challenges, and another teacher pay raise.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Prioritizes Invite-Only Photo-Ops Instead Of Working With Education-Focused Legislative Leaders
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 @ 2:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has been 28 days since Governor Cooper proposed a budget compromise and urged Republican leaders to come to the negotiating table.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 2:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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It’s been 22 days since Governor Cooper and Democratic legislators sent a compromise budget offer to Republican legislators. And for 22 days, Republican legislators have refused to make a counteroffer, instead doing anything possible to avoid negotiating.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper continues to hold up progress on North Carolina’s state budget – holding it hostage over liberal Medicaid expansion with no guarantee of continued federal dollars.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 7:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ten days ago, Governor Roy Cooper and Democratic leaders offered a balanced compromise proposal to break through the current state budget impasse.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 3:22 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Is 'three times in a row a charm' in the tax raising business here in Beaufort County? Nonetheless, its government's majority believes that yet another tax raise in three consecutive years suits its citizens just fine; so charmed we must be.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Joined by dozens of public school teachers and health care professionals and advocates, Governor Roy Cooper today spoke about his veto of the budget passed this week by the legislature.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 3:44 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley issued the following response to Governor Cooper's veto of the state budget:
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Cooper's spokesperson, Ford Porter, shared the following statement on the Senate GOP budget
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 5:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper's spokesperson, Ford Porter, shared the following statement on the Senate budget:
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 4:54 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Ford Porter, spokesman for Governor Roy Cooper, shared the following comment after the legislature voted to override the Governor's veto and pass a special interest budget that prohibited public input and amendment from other representatives
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's top legislative leaders say they're eager to talk to teachers gathering in Raleigh on Wednesday, May 16, about a 6.2 percent average pay raise they'll receive next year
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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General Assembly budget writers have a monumental challenge this year that they haven't faced in the past four. A Democrat in the governor's mansion
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2017 @ 12:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The following statement is released on behalf of the North Carolina Republican Party in response to the recent announcement of Governor McAuliffe of Virginia's irresponsible $1.5 billion budget shortfall.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:18 am
By: Russell Allen
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If you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they've got our state headed in a "conservative direction." *Wow. That sounds great. We must be cutting taxes and the size of government all over the doggone place. Right? (Um, right?)*
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The General Fund budget proposal released Monday by GOP state House leaders for the two-year budget cycle starting July 1 would increase spending by nearly $1 billion more than the increase recommended in March by Gov. Pat McCrory, a fellow Republican.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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GOP congressional leaders are racing to approve a budget blueprint for the coming year that abides by strict spending limits, determined to show that the party can maintain fiscal discipline.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 4:44 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory and the GOP-led state legislature are at odds over the budget, Medicaid reform, Common Core, and other issues.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Beaufort County GOP Chairman Keith Kidwell announced he will run for Beaufort County Commissioner. In his announcement, Chairman Kidwell emphasized that the County needs a leader with business, budgeting and executive experience.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 @ 7:22 am
By: Keith D Kidwell
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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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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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Rob "Mr. Politics" Christensen - who has spent THREE decades at The N&O missing stuff like John Edwards's blonde with the camera, Mike Easley's corruption, and Dennis Wicker stiffing a pizza guy - thinks he has the state Senate's president pro tem ALL FIGURED OUT.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The NCGOP has the governor AND the lieutenant governor. Yet, the legislature won't have a budget agreement in place by July 1 - the start of the fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 @ 3:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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