federal spending

Craig Bannister | January 9, 2024
The federal budget deficit was $509 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 (Oct.-Dec. 2023) - up $87 billion from the deficit recorded…
Craig Bannister | September 29, 2023
The percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) consumed by federal spending on health insurance will grow over the next ten years, the…
Ken Meekins | June 12, 2023
Your hard-earned tax dollars are being used to figure out how “racist structures” make certain people use meth.  Researchers at Emory University (…
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Brittany M. Hughes | June 2, 2023
  With few highlights, the debt ceiling bill does little to curb spending, get the debt under control, or help our economy - and even the White…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 25, 2023
The name "Cato" retains a special place in Roman and early U.S. history. In antiquity, Marcus Porcius Cato was a Roman senator, named after his…
Brittany M. Hughes | April 1, 2022
  President Joe Biden's budget is stuffed full of frivolous spending, fantasy math, and more than a little insanity - all courtesy of your wallet…
Brittany M. Hughes | February 1, 2022
A government-funded study utilizing your tax dollars has been paying underage teens, including gay and self-identifying “trans” kids, to report their…
Brittany M. Hughes | October 21, 2021
President Biden demanded that we “shouldn’t even talk about the numbers” associated with his massive $2 trillion-dollar spending bill because “it’s…
Connor Grant | March 31, 2021
President Biden is expected to roll out his new $2 trillion infrastructure bill, called the “American Jobs Plan,” on Wednesday, as the president…
Brittany M. Hughes | December 22, 2020
Hawaii Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed the combined $2.3 trillion spending bills passed by both the House and Senate in an 11th-hour vote Monday…
Brittany M. Hughes | April 14, 2020
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that studies and analyzes the nation’s growing deft and deficit, now projects the…
Eric Scheiner | September 10, 2019
With its high traffic volume, high rents, and high cost of living you would think it might be a boon to move some federal offices out of the DC…