The federal government has yet to resolve its impasse over appropriations as another government budget deadline nears. Lost amidst the impeachment news swirling in recent weeks was the signing into law on September 27 of ...
“There’s no confusion about what happened here. This was a lie, and we know why they were not there because they were told that there were not going to be votes.” North Carolina returned to ...
“I am deeply disappointed that my colleague has just objected to the desperately needed and urgent bill for our 9/11 first responders.” Sen. Kristen Gillibrand asked the senate for unanimous consent to reauthorize the 9/11 ...
Republicans and Democrats reached a deal Monday night while President Trump was at a campaign rally in Texas where he told attendees he didn’t even want to hear about the new deal. Monday night Congressional ...
(AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz) In a 351-66 vote, the House of Representatives has passed their version of the 2019 military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA intends to spend $717 billion in the next fiscal ...
In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll from January of this year, the U.S. military was the only institution for which a majority of respondents (53%) expressed “a great deal of confidence.” When considering favorability—either with respect ...
Despite a brilliant speech by Rand Paul which lambasted both political parties for careless spending, Congress rushes through bill to increase government spending by $300 billion. “We have a 700 page bill that no ...
The 2013 government shutdown, which lasted a span of 16 days, caused an estimated $7 million loss in revenue. Will our national parks lose again when the current short-term spending bill is up? By passing ...
The three day government shutdown is on the verge of ending after enough Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to pass a three week extension of funding. In exchange the Republican party gave assurances that Congress ...
Study found that candidate Trump’s plan would result in nearly 30,000 added deaths per year from all causes, while a plan put forth by Bernie Sanders would actually save 31,302 lives annually. (Common Dreams) A ...
Trump wants to repeal the estate tax and he’s using farmers to drum up support. (Inequality.org, Chuck Collins) Kip Tom, the Leesburg Indiana farmer who will stand today with President Trump complaining about the federal ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley tells the Defense secretary “if heads don’t roll nothing changes.” The plane, which never flew a mission in Afghanistan, is part of a pattern of billions in military waste documented by ProPublica ...
Urban billionaires are trotting out the tractors and overalls in a bizarre effort to roll back their taxes. (By Chuck Collins, Other Words) After this summer, President Trump and the Republican Congress have one big ...
While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. (by Aditi Katti, Inequality.org) It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s ...
The F-35 cost: It’s become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US$1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070. (Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University) The F-35 was billed as ...
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system like the F-35. The nation’s most expensive weapons program isn’t done showing U.S. taxpayers how much it ...
More people are starting to consider tax resistance against the Trump administration. And many don’t know at first that others are already refusing to pay war taxes!
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