Congress Renews Warrantless Digital Spying Program as Part of $886 Billion Spending Bill
Section 702 will continue until April, when Congress will have another shot at seriously reforming a program that desperately needs it.
Section 702 will continue until April, when Congress will have another shot at seriously reforming a program that desperately needs it.
Congressman Thomas Massie discusses his "no" votes on foreign aid, COVID-19 relief, and labeling anti-Zionism antisemitism on episode two of Just Asking Questions.
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"Over the last 20 years, because of temperature rises, we have seen about 116,000 more people die from heat. But 283,000 fewer people die from cold."
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
More than $2 billion has been distributed, but only two states have even broken ground and most states haven't even submitted proposals.
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Respecting free speech defends individual rights and lets people show us who they are.
A fiscal commission might be a good idea, but it's also the ultimate expression of Congress' irresponsibility.
Charter schools use "fewer dollars to achieve better outcomes," write University of Arkansas researchers.
Servicing debt grows more expensive as the deadline to curb the spending spree gets closer.
Though federal law has required annual financial reports, the Department of Defense simply did not complete them until 2018. It has since failed each year.
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
A new GAO report details federal prosecutors' attempts to put the horse back in the barn.
The Copenhagen Consensus has long championed a cost-benefit approach for addressing the world's most critical environmental problems.
Some private universities receive more from the government than they net in tuition payments.
Moody's calculates that interest payments on the national debt will consume over a quarter of federal tax revenue by 2033, up from just 9 percent last year.
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Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.
This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
In the last 50 years, when the budget process has been in place, Congress has managed only four times to pass a budget on time.
"The United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt."
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The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.
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The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
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Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.
A new Government Accountability Office report notes that of 24 federal agencies, none of their headquarters are more than half-staffed on an average day.
A debt commission won't solve any of the federal government's fiscal problems, but it's the first step towards taking them seriously.
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Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
Ford and General Motors have tempered plans for E.V. production, but governments still spend billions of dollars in incentives.
But that decision seems to violate federal law.
Higher rates lead to more debt, and more debt begets higher rates, and on and on. Get the picture?
The Golden State's new rules—which Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board opted to copy—will increase the cost of a new truck by about one-third.
Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.
Just 24 percent of self-identified Trump voters and 34 percent of self-identified Biden voters say they support a public handout for the Milwaukee Brewers' 22-year-old stadium.
Well over half of those funds remain unspent, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Especially because the once-dismissed possibility of rising rates is now a reality.
The Federal Reserve's higher interest rates were supposed to trigger changes to fiscal policy. So far, that hasn't happened.
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The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022, although it only uses 23 percent of its office space.
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