Ukraine Can't Defend Its Freedom With an Army of Conscripts
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
Inspiring support for Ukrainian freedom is undermined by the remainder of the president’s agenda.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
The president touted his support of cost-increasing 'Buy America' requirements for American infrastructure projects.
The issue has never been a lack of funds for infrastructure; it's that the money frequently ends up getting spent on something else via a highly politicized decision-making process.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
Child care workers benefit from state subsidies. They’re fighting against possible cuts by encouraging regressive taxes that fuel a new drug war.
Most of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program went to business owners, not preserving jobs, according to a new study.
But Washington just keeps hitting the snooze button.
"Obviously we could have used the money, but at what cost?,” says Sheila Hemphill, an activist and lobbyist from Brady, Texas
Nearly half of the $1 billion in RAISE grants awarded by Biden's Department of Transportation have gone to non-transportation projects.
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The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
And we would be better citizens if we called him out for it more.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
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Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.
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The senator's opposition to past disaster relief bills has always been on the grounds that congressional budgets should mean something.
Is America's meat processing industry making huge profits by "jacking up prices" during a pandemic, or does it need government assistance? Both, according to the Biden administration.
You can support pre-K education and affordable child care and worry about climate change while understanding that policymakers need to get out of the way.
Are Medicare's fiscal problems even worse than the headline numbers suggest?
When government does things, most everything costs more and is lower quality.
Putting America's depressing fiscal policy to a beat since 2011!
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"Some districts are investing big money in initiatives that don't appear at first glance strictly COVID-related."
If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
Biden’s presidency is already failing. Build Back Better wouldn't help.
Plus, Biden's Build Back Better passes the house.
Today's highly successful space race "is not something for two billionaires to be directing," says Sanders, who favors the government spending taxpayer money to do the same damn thing (but more slowly).
The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill is unlikely to prevent its passage through the House. A vote could happen later tonight.
Virginia spends around $35,000 per mile of state-controlled road. In New Jersey, it's $1.1 million. Both states are about to get a lot more federal funding.
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The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
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It's Biden's bill, but Trump helped set the stage.
The U.S. government doesn't reflect on its spending history, and that shows.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s crusade is costing the state huge sums just to try to prosecute thousands of misdemeanor trespassing cases.
It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.
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We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.