Is this the best we can do?
Biden said he wasn’t going to give an inch and Speaker McCarthy made him give a couple of feet. (It was nowhere close to a mile.) But it all comes at the cost of raising the U.S. debt ceiling by $4.0 trillion.
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Cutting the budget.
In a nation burdened with $20 trillion in debt, a crumbling infrastructure and a depleted military, it may be time to find a way to live without things like the National Endowment for the Arts.
Golfing over governing.
More than two months late, the president has at last complied with the law and submitted a budget. It is, as we have come to expect, an ideological document that is untethered entirely from actual governing.
Entitlement is just a politician word for dependency.
The more you convince people to take goodies from the government rather than provide for themselves, the more votes you can count on come election day.
Hats off to Paul Ryan.
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan went to a Washington, D.C. tattoo parlor and had a giant target tattooed on his forehead. Or so it is going to seem in the coming weeks.