The projected costs to implement only a handful of President Biden’s most sweeping environmental regulations have an eye-popping price tag: more than $845 billion. That’s according to an analysis of new Environmental Protection Agency policies, such as electric vehicle mandates, from Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The analysis concluded that the […]
House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger announced she will step down from her post, just hours after the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package to keep the government open. The head of the powerful spending committee told House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, in a letter Friday that someone else should lead the panel, […]
The House passed a $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill hours before funding ran out for much of the federal government at midnight Friday. The bill received bipartisan support, with 101 Republicans joining with 185 Democrats who voted yea on the bill. Opposition to the bill, however was also relatively bipartisan, with 112 nay votes from […]
By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to pass. The 1,000-plus-page package of bills includes funding for the State, Education, Defense, Labor, Homeland Security, and Health and […]
The House on Friday passed a $1.2 trillion spending package to fund the rest of the government through the end of the fiscal year, beating back objections by conservative Republicans who said it didn’t go far enough on border security. The bill cleared on a 286- 134 vote, with 1 85 Democrats and 101 Republicans […]
Congress’ new spending bill adopts a Trump-style approach to immigration spending, boosting funding for border enforcement and detention, but it forgoes the big policy changes that Republicans say are needed to solve the migrant crisis. The $1.2 trillion package funds the Homeland Security, Defense, Labor and State departments and other agencies, as well as Congress, […]
Rep. Chip Roy blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson for the sprawling $1.2 trillion spending package, saying the speaker “blew it” and that passing the bill will risk the GOP’s majority in the House. Mr. Roy, Texas Republican, has long decried colossal spending bills and called for a yearlong funding patch to secure steep spending cuts […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a great win for the state of Texas against the federal government over the federal funding bill that was passed by proxy voting rules passed in the House of Representatives under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. AG Paxton’s office published a notice on Tuesday noting that he had won a case […]
There’s a reason it’s against the law to give credit cards to children. They don’t understand where money comes from, how credit works, or what happens when you spend money you do not have. But even children would probably be more fiscally responsible than some Democratic lawmakers. New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman — of […]
For those of you who pay attention to China’s stock market, you may have noticed that it’s getting battered as of late — with $6.3 trillion U.S. in losses and indices hitting five-year lows. If stock-watchers in Beijing think this is bad, however, they ought to be warned: It could be just a taste of […]
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