Tag: House

House Democrat apologizes for racial slur during budget hearing

During a House Budget Committee hearing Thursday, Maryland Democratic Rep. David Trone dropped a racially offensive term. The incident occurred when Mr. Trone was engaging with Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, who was providing testimony to the committee. “So this Republican jigaboo that it’s the tax rate that’s stopping […]

The House GOP’s Greatest Failure

In just sixty-five days the Biden administration is set to sign two documents – treaties actually – that that will give the World Health Organization’s Director-General the power to dictate our public health policy, crushing national sovereignty and medical freedom. Remarkably, House Republicans earlier this year deleted funding for American participation in the WHO, but […]

House GOP group proposes changes to Social Security, Medicare

The Republican Study Committee is pushing a budget that raises the Social Security retirement age to keep the program solvent. The massive bloc of House Republicans’ fiscal 2025 blueprint also leans into health policy wars, turning Medicare into a “premium support model” and endorsing legislation that would create legal protection for humans at fertilization. These […]