Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesPremium Fact Check: Did Republicans Block Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research? Democrats say the GOP sacrificed children with cancer on a pyre, "so that we can make way for tax cuts for billionaires." Is that true? By C. Douglas Golden December 23, 2024
Bill Koplitz / Getty ImagesOp-Ed Ceiling Their Fate: Congress Needs to Fix Its Spending Problem - Or Else "The only beneficiaries of this federal farce are the entitled elected class whose pockets and egos are filled by their own machinations." By Steve Piccirillo December 22, 2024
MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty ImagesCommentary Mind-Boggling Backfire: By Pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden Might Be Going to Jail "If those pardoned refuse to testify, they can face new charges for criminal contempt," one lawyer said about the pardon. By C. Douglas Golden December 22, 2024
Richard Pierrin - AFP / Getty Images The House Vote on the Slimmed-Down Spending Bill Is In: Elon Musk Is Pleased Amid significant Republican disaffection, the House passed a stopgap budget bill Friday night, capping a week of drama in Washington. By Jack Davis December 20, 2024
Alex Wong / Getty Images It's Dead (Again): Johnson's 2nd Funding Bill Bites Dust - Americans May Still Get Gov't Shutdown for Christmas A second stopgap spending bill went down to defeat Thursday with one day left to avert a federal government shutdown. By Jack Davis December 20, 2024
Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesCommentary Proposed Replacement for Axed Spending Bill Could Actually Be Even Worse Conservatives have rightly sounded the alarm on federal spending, but Trump has earned our trust, including on his debt-ceiling plans. By Michael Schwarz December 19, 2024
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Rand Paul Terrifies 'The Swamp' with Unorthodox House Speaker Proposal Rand Paul is calling for a change in House leafdership that would transform the way in which Washington works. By Jack Davis December 19, 2024
Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesCommentary Vivek Rewrites 1500-Page, Pork-Filled Budget Bill Using Just 75 Words Dems and RINOs Will Despise Ramaswamy's 75-word model of an appropriate CR provided an example of what DOGE could do to the entire federal government. By Michael Schwarz December 19, 2024
ANDREY DENISYUK / Getty Images It's Dead: Bloated Budget Bill Bites the Dust, Marks End of 'Pass the Bill to Learn What's in It' Era of Gov't Spending The Moby Dick of budget bills has been harpooned after an uprising led by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump By Jack Davis December 19, 2024
Kent Nishimura / Getty ImagesOp-Ed Band-Aid on a Budget Bleed: Why Congress Must Reject the Continuing Resolution "Slapped together at the eleventh hour with a looming deadline, this bloated piece of legislation is a betrayal of the American people." By Ryan Fournier December 18, 2024