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The interest on the U.S. national debt is increasingly becoming more costly as interest rates rise and more debt is taken on. Average Americans will be stuck footing the bill from reckless spending as a larger portion of the U.S.…

by Ben Whedon   House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Friday vowed to remove funding for Ukraine from a Pentagon spending package amid a conservative rebellion. The package, which has twice failed to clear a procedural vote due to…

The federal government’s deficit for fiscal year 2023 is set to double thanks largely to large amounts of government spending greenlit by the Biden administration, according to budget experts surveyed by The Washington Post. The deficit…

On Monday, the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) struck a blow in the fight for fiscal displume. In a 431-word statement, the conservative House Republicans put Official Washington on notice that when Congress returned in September and took up…

Remember how, mere months ago, the debt-ceiling deal struck between Democrats and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown was touted as “an historic first step toward shifting government back toward common sense and…

by Nick Pope   Germany is on track to fall short of its ambitious long-term climate change goals despite its plans to have spent more than $500 billion to reach them, according to Reuters. The German government is primed to miss its…

by Nicholas Ballasy   The $886 billion defense spending bill that the GOP-led House is poised to vote on in the coming days is $26 billion more that the previous year, as the national debt climbs to $33 trillion. The bill has received…

Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about what they’ll do for the American people if elected or reelected. I’d like to hear promises to get government out of the…

Romina Boccia The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released an update to its 10‐​year fiscal projections. CBO highlights higher inflation, lower revenues, and higher spending than previously projected. CBO’s report arrives as…

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez concealed thousands of dollars in campaign spending, an ethics complaint exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation alleges. The…