This week, Congress is set to vote on a giant spending package - 2,313 pages long - that was just released, was negotiated in secret, spends $1.4 trillion, and is chock full of member projects and special-interest giveaways.
That's on top of the $23 trillion in debt we've already accumulated, not to mention that the federal government is already running a trillion-dollar deficit, every year.
For years, Republicans fought against wasteful spending under the Obama administration.
These spending increases might be nice to have, but we are $23 trillion in debt.
While I'm all for cutting these taxes, there's never even been a discussion about whether we should also repeal the spending that these taxes were supposed to pay for.
Rather than debate the merits of extending them through the normal committee process, big companies and their high-priced lobbyists push to get them thrown into this end-of-the-year spending package, knowing that most of Congress will never even read the bills.
If Congress can't pass a budget and appropriations bills in a timely and orderly fashion, members of Congress shouldn't get a paycheck.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/federal-budget-spending-debt-grow-both-parties-to-blame/
That's on top of the $23 trillion in debt we've already accumulated, not to mention that the federal government is already running a trillion-dollar deficit, every year.
For years, Republicans fought against wasteful spending under the Obama administration.
These spending increases might be nice to have, but we are $23 trillion in debt.
While I'm all for cutting these taxes, there's never even been a discussion about whether we should also repeal the spending that these taxes were supposed to pay for.
Rather than debate the merits of extending them through the normal committee process, big companies and their high-priced lobbyists push to get them thrown into this end-of-the-year spending package, knowing that most of Congress will never even read the bills.
If Congress can't pass a budget and appropriations bills in a timely and orderly fashion, members of Congress shouldn't get a paycheck.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/federal-budget-spending-debt-grow-both-parties-to-blame/
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