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Matt Weidinger of the American Enterprise Institute looks back at the federal government’s recent spending history. Americans may have difficulty keeping up with the reckless pace of spending coming out…
House Democrats passed the centerpiece to Biden’s agenda last week with only one Democrat dissenter. The “Build Back Better” bill supposedly shrunk over time from $3.5 trillion to $2 trillion,…
James Antle of the Washington Examiner reports on the critical role centrists play for President Biden’s spending plans. President Joe Biden’s economic agenda may rest on whether centrist Democrats are…
Brian Riedl writes at the New York Post that the spending plan moving through Congress would cost much more than its advertised price. After months of criticizing Sens. Joe Manchin…
Naomi Lim of the Washington Examiner ponders the political implications of President Biden’s spending proposals. President Joe Biden’s hopes of bolstering his job approval numbers by passing his spending packages…
The latest Senate Joint Economic Committee study provides further evidence we should be rolling back, not growing, the welfare state. The report shows that workers are increasingly leaving the labor…
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner reports negative reaction to a plan to give the IRS more access to people’s personal information. Congressional Democrats, concerned over lukewarm public enthusiasm for…
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner predicts a tough September for congressional Democrats. House and Senate Democrats will have to resolve a bitter internal battle over spending in order to…
Jeffrey Folks writes at the American Thinker about serious flaws in the Biden administration’s plans. The New York Times headlined a recent article, “Biden’s $6 trillion budget aims for path…
In the middle of an otherwise reasonable editorial on North Carolina legislators’ response to the coronavirus, the Winston-Salem Journal can’t help but get in a little dig (emphasis mine): This…
Mitchell Nemeth uses a Foundation for Economic Education column to explore the notion that Scandinavian countries offer some sort of socialist paradise. As the 2020 presidential election nears, progressive candidates…
What works better than work requirements to get poor people to work? During a roundtable discussion on work requirements in anti-poverty programs, Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute 1) general…