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Why Everything About Politics Sucks, in 1 Chart
New polling released this week by the Pew Research Center reports that large numbers of Americans both distrust their government and
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Biden Says the Deficit Is Falling. Actually, It's Rising.
The president now brags that he cut the deficit! "We're on track," he says, to have "the biggest decline in a single year ever
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GAO Says Unemployment Insurance System Is at ‘High Risk’ for Fraud and Abuse
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday added the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system to its list of programs at “high
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Watchdog Report: At Least 20 Percent of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Dollars Wasted
The federal government sent billions in unemployment aid to ineligible beneficiaries and outright fraudsters during the pandemic, according to
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Burn Pit Bill Creates Massive, Debt-Fueled Backdoor Expansion of the V.A. Health Care System
Expanding care to troops harmed by toxic burn pits has become an increasingly bipartisan cause. Members of both parties have introduced a
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Do We Really Need 100 Different Federal Programs To Fund Broadband?
President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill apportioned $1.2 trillion for such projects as roads, bridges, and airports. But it also
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The American Rescue Plan Bailed Out Unprofitable Government-Owned Golf Courses
An unnecessary federal bailout of state and local governments has given an undeserved mulligan to some money-losing government-owned golf
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Biden's Plan for Reducing Inflation Will Actually Make It Worse
President Joe Biden wants you to know he is serious about taming inflation and that he has a plan to do so. Unfortunately, his plan reveals
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Government Employees Got $872 Million in Bonuses Out of COVID Aid Cash
Federal funds intended to be used for pandemic relief efforts were used instead to pad the paychecks of government employees from coast to
No budget black hole, except Labor’s spending
Labor hasn’t inherited any hidden budget black hole surprises. It is spending monuments created in their last period in office that now need to be
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No black holes, except Labor’s spending
Newly minted federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have hit the ground running with a warp-speed conversion to fiscal
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New CBO Report Exposes Biden's Deficit-Reduction Misinformation
By the time inflation comes under control sometime next year, the federal budget deficit will be ballooning once again—and on course to hit
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Tucker Carlson's Great Replacement Theory Is Spectacularly Wrong
"I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term replacement, if you
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‘The Nearest Thing to Eternal Life We’ll Ever See on This Earth’
Well before he was elected governor of California or president of the United States, Ronald Reagan in 1964 said “governments’ programs, once
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The Costs of Playing Kick the Can with the National Debt
U.S. politicians, regardless of party, share one common trait. When it comes to dealing with the national debt growing too large, they do whatever