The U.S. Treasury has published a major report revealing that the federal government has amassed $103.7 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations.
Read MoreAnalysis: Federal Fiscal Shortfall Surges Past $100 Trillion
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Commentary: National Debt Could Hit $100 trillion by 2037 If Trump Budget Is Ignored
President Donald Trump and the Office of Management and Budget have completed another budget, this time for Fiscal Year 2021, that proposes $4.4 trillion of spending cuts over the next decade and reaching balance within 15 years.
Read MoreCommentary: More Evidence Emerges That Federal Government Is Funding Worthless College Degrees
Americans have long suspected that, for many, a college degree simply isn’t worth the price.
Read MoreUS Can’t Afford Public Lands Congress Wants to Bring Under Federal Government Control
by Tim Pearce A lengthy public lands package sitting in Congress adds hundreds of thousands of acres of federally protected wilderness without securing funding to manage it. The House is preparing to vote on a bipartisan land package next week that is roughly 660 pages and composed of 118…
Read MoreExclusive Harlan Hill Commentary: Trump Just Turned the Tide in Washington with Three Simple Statements
by Harlan Hill The only adult in Washington just stood up and put an end to the nonsense. In President Trump’s Friday afternoon address from the White House garden, he put an end to the government shutdown and laid out the terms for the border negotiations going forward. #1…
Read MoreDrain The Swamp: EPA Shed 1,200 Jobs In Trump’s First Year And A Half
by Evie Fordham The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shed approximately 1,200 jobs as roughly 1,600 employees departed and less than 400 new employees were hired during President Donald Trump’s first year and a half in office. Departing employees included “at least 260 scientists, 185 ‘environmental protection specialists’ and 106…
Read MoreCommentary: Trump, Reagan, and Big Government
by Jeffery Rendall As I strolled through the excellent and memory-provoking exhibits at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (in Simi Valley, CA) the other day I was struck by how similar President Donald Trump’s approach to today’s politics is to the way Ronald Reagan handled the subject a half…
Read MoreFederal Civil Service Abuses Bigger Than Just the Department of Veterans Affairs
By Natalia Castro When news broke of employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) putting the lives of veterans at risk with waiting lists to die, the country was outraged. When it became clear that these employees were not being terminated for their failures and mismanagement, Florida Senator Marco…
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