The various lawsuits pitting the Trump administration against sanctuary jurisdictions has important implications for constitutional federalism that go beyond immigration policy.
The problem is in the procedure, says the libertarian-leaning Kentucky congressman. He thinks it could cost the GOP big in November.
The president wants his border wall funding.
Spending. The Pentagon. TIGER grants. Border Wall. NSF. Planned Parenthood. CDC. Head Start. The whole process. I can't take it anymore.
Republicans prove yet again why they deserve to be labeled the biggest swamp spenders.
Four out of five voters agree that Washington has a spending problem, but a new omnibus spending bill will add yet more to the national debt.
It was supposed to be a temporary stimulus program. Instead it's an engine for pork.
Government at all levels fuels an educational arms race through lavish and indiscriminate funding.
Hey, big spenders, spend a little...less of our money on yourselves?
And the biggest liabilities don't even appear on the official balance sheet.
The administration's spending blueprint continues the fiscal decline that began during the Bush era.
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality. But now the party's over.
The new two-year budget deal will result in a $1 trillion deficit.
The number of structurally deficient bridges, never high to begin with, has been dropping over the past 30 years.
The GOP leadership cheers on a bipartisan spending spree.
Both parties agree on more spending and bigger deficits.
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have dreamed that 21st-century Americans would still be paying for pensions created under him.
Some people are pushing Trump to fund his infrastructure dreams with a 140 percent increase in the federal gas tax.
The House-passed continuing resolution died Friday in the Senate, but any deal to keep the government operating will likely do similar damage to the deficit.
President Trump and the GOP leadership has already reneged on promises to tackle entitlements.
Whataboutism won't do it-you need journalism tethered to principle, regardless of party. Also, stay tuned for a 1 p.m. ET Facebook livestream with John Stossel!
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss what's wrong with the GOP tax bill, Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Aquaman.
Virginia has doubled its film subsides in the last 5 years, but a new watchdog report finds they are nearly useless.
After all that fuss from 2009 onward, Rand Paul is the last Republican left objecting to the continued growth of government.
And it's already contentious.
The former deficit hawk gets budget-busting religion now that he holds real power.
Real scandals: Tom Price charters five flights in a week and Steven Mnuchin wants a military plane for his honeymoon.
President Trump and his congressional collaborators get set for a free-spending fall, warns the libertarian congressman
The notion that a dollar of government spending can yield more than a dollar in savings, "paying for itself," is absurd.
Now that Trump's made a deal with Democrats, our national debt is higher than ever.
This is not the antidote to Trump. This is not an "alternative" to anything.
"Project labor agreements" requiring union contracts on most government work are spreading in California.
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
Just because Congress can't fix health care doesn't mean it can't be done.
The Olympics are an awful deal for the cities that host them.
John Stossel investigates a New York City park bathroom that cost $2 million to build.
There are 20 trillion reasons we should rein in government spending.
Proponents of government spending warned of a budget full of cuts, but that's not what happened.
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