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Trump’s new budget abandons all pretense of being fiscally responsible
President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal for the fiscal year 2020, which was released on Monday, breaks with his repeated campaign promises to rein in the debt and eliminate the deficit. The newly...
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2 years after tax bill’s passage, corporate revenue has plummeted
In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed a massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, calling it his “big, beautiful Christmas present” for the American people. While his Treasury...
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After running on balanced budget, Rep. Troy Balderson now wants a massive...
Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) wants a major investment in infrastructure to fix roads, bridges, highways, and airports. There’s just the small matter of how to pay for it. In a Newark Advocate op-ed...
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Johns Hopkins Hospital hounds poor patients over 0.03 percent of revenue
Johns Hopkins Hospital sicced collections attorneys on thousands of patients over the past decade, often taking extraordinary measures to extract payment from patients who probably owed no money at all...
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Top Republican admits the GOP tax bill was mostly a lie
The tax bill lauded by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans shrunk government revenues by $1.9 trillion, with the promise that the economy would grow enough in the years to come to pay...
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GOP congressman voted for tax cuts, now says America is too indebted to pay...
Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) voted against a bill last week that would fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for the next year. His reasoning? He says the measure...
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Republican lawmakers who backed Trump’s tax cuts now freak out over...
The bipartisan congressional leadership and White House reached a two-year budget deal on Monday, seemingly averting another government shutdown and preventing a default on the national debt that has...
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The stunning hypocrisy of the 23 Republican senators who just voted against...
The Senate passed a two-year budget agreement on Thursday, 67-28, sending the bipartisan legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk. The agreement includes a suspension of the debt ceiling until...
View ArticleRepublican senator claims that buying Greenland was his idea
Once upon a time, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) talked a lot about balancing the budget, reducing the national debt, and eliminating wasteful spending. Now, he admits he was behind one of President Donald...
View ArticleAfter Trump broke his promise to eliminate the national debt, GOP senators...
Under President Donald Trump, both the national debt and the annual budget deficit have reached all time highs, despite his 2016 campaign promises to eliminate both. Rather than concede another broken...
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