The President’s Plan Takes More to Spend More
Their Budget Never Balances—Ever The House budget balances in ten years, but, like Senate Democrats, the White House says their budget never balances—ever. $8.2 Trillion in New Debt Accounting for the cost of eliminating the sequester and removing the budget gimmicks, net deficit reduction is only $119 billion. Additional deficit increase in FY2013: $61 billion […]
Major Flaw In Gang Of Eight Plan Could Cost Taxpayers Trillions
According to what has been publicly reported about the Gang of Eight’s forthcoming immigration bill, there appears to be a major flaw that could allow millions of illegal immigrants to access federal welfare benefits and poverty programs. Specifically, there is nothing in the framework to apply federal public charge law to those in the country illegally before they are granted legal status.
Unmasking The $1.5T Tax Hike In Senate Democrats’ FY14 Budget
When the Budget Committee minority staff began analyzing Chairman Patty Murray’s FY 2014 budget last week, they were shocked to discover that the plan called for not $975 billion in tax increases—the amount that the majority proudly and openly claimed—but instead $1.5 trillion in tax hikes.
Vote Alert: Budget Committee Democrats Reject Key GOP Amendments To Grow Economy, Not Gov’t
During the mark-up of what would be the first Senate budget in four years, Republicans on the Budget Committee offered several key amendments to balance the budget, promote pro-growth tax reform, and return to the sound principles of the bipartisan 1996 welfare reform agreement. Unfortunately, the panel’s Democrat majority unanimously opposed each of these efforts.
Senate Democrats Try To Fool Nation With Budget Hoax
“Senate Democrats’ claim of $1.85 trillion in deficit reduction is based on several egregious accounting gimmicks. The biggest is that the majority amazingly fails to account for the cost of eliminating the sequester—a $1.2 trillion sleight-of-hand. In other words, they don’t replace the sequester and then offer $1.85 trillion in deficit reduction; the $1.85 trillion is the sequester replacement—wiping out most of the alleged new savings.”
Senate Democrats’ Tax-And-Spend Plan Grows The Government—Not The Economy
After Four Years, Senate Democrats Stunningly Fail To Identify Reforms, Enriching The Bureaucracy At Workers’ Expense
After Four Years, Senate Democrats Have Obligation To Present Budget Free Of Gimmicks
“After four years of defying their statutory responsibility to lay out a financial plan for the nation, Senate Democrats have relented and announced they will draft and introduce a budget this year. The nation’s debt has climbed to $16.7 trillion since then—greater than the size of the entire economy—so it is essential that their budget be an honest one that changes our debt course, not a plan full of gimmicks.”
Immigration And The Welfare State
It is an explicit and unambiguous tenet in federal law that those granted entry into the U.S. must be able to support themselves financially. But the Obama Administration has aggressively defied this strict federal statute. What are new promises worth when existing law is unilaterally waived? Last year, the Ranking Members of Budget, Finance, Judiciary, […]
Jack Lew Complicit In Violation Of Law Aimed At Saving Medicare
Alarmed by the unsustainable growth of Medicare’s unfunded obligations and the direct threat this posed to seniors, Congress in 2003 enacted a legal requirement that the President submit legislation if the Medicare Trustees issue a funding warning for the program as part of their annual report. This provision of federal law is commonly known as […]
CBO’s Budget And Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 To 2023
Without a course correction, out-of-control spending will fuel a $9 trillion increase in the gross debt, further slowing the economy and limiting opportunity for millions of Americans.