Trump’s Vacations To Mar-A-Lago Cost Taxpayers $13.6M, Government Report Finds
President Trump and his entourage cost taxpayers a combined $13.6 million for just four trips over one month to his...
Category: Budget
Audit Shows that a Corrupt Pentagon Can’t Explain Where $800 Million of Taxpayer Money Went
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
Billionaires vs. Teachers: The Koch Brothers’ Plan to Starve Public Education
Arizona has become the hotbed for an experiment rightwing activists hope will redefine America’s schools – an experiment that has...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
Pentagon Won’t Answer Who Would Pay for Trump’s Expensive Military Parade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
Anti-Science Trump Plans To Gut Renewable Energy Research Funding By 72 Percent
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Report: Vacationing Trump Entourage Bankrupting Secret Service
The Secret Service can’t pay hundreds of its agents to protect President Donald Trump’s large family and their frequent travel, Director...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
The Trump Budget: Putting America’s Richest 1% First
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
Trump to Gut the EPA in Order to Give More Money to a Wasteful Pentagon
In order to fund an unnecessary $54 billion increase in U.S. defense spending, Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to...
Donald Trump would give massive cut tax cuts to the richest one percent, adding trillions to the national debt
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
Paul Ryan’s “New Idea”: More Giveaways to Corporations
Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he...
Reckless House Republicans Try To Slip Bank Deregulation Into Highway Bill
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that...
Kansas Republicans Finally Admit That Their Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Have Failed
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive...
GOP-Koch Drive To Privatize Rail Service Caused Deadly Amtrak Derailment
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
Scott Walker Wrecks Wisconsin And Proves That Tax Cuts For The Rich Don’t Work
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
Obama Stands Up For Veterans By Vowing To Veto GOP Bill That Cut Benefits For 70,000 Vets
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
A scam is a fraudulent business scheme, or a swindle, and a deliberate ploy to defraud ignorant, naïve, and stupid...
President Obama Smacks Down Republicans With The Reality Of His Economic Success
President Obama smacked down Republicans today by contrasting his record of economic success with the reality of their trickle down...
Bobby Jindal’s Experiment in Trickle Down Economics Proves Disastrous
The country is full of examples illustrating the failure of Republican economic policies. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin and Sam Brownback’s Kansas have become...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Republican Scheme To Cut Social Security For The Disabled
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
Congress Spreads Joy to the 1 Percent
Towards the end of 2014, Americans averted yet another government shutdown. Congress passed, and Obama signed, a 1.1 trillion dollar...
Pentagon Fleeces Taxpayers with $1.5 Trillion Boondoggle
Just days before its international debut at an airshow in the United Kingdom, the entire fleet of the Pentagon’s next...
Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells
During my first semester of college, John Lennon was assassinated 40 blocks south of my freshman dorm, and Ronald Reagan,...
How Wall Street Financial Fees Choke Our Cities
When a city is forced to spend more on Wall Street fees than on basic public services, it is the...
U.S. is a World Leader in Class Conflict Over Government Spending
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
Hannity Calls Nun A “Communist” For Acknowledging Paul Ryan’s Budget Hurts The Poor
From Fox News’ Hannity special, “The Power of Faith”.
Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people...
The Republican Budget: An Assault on the Middle Class
(CNN) — Strong countries need a thriving middle class, but in America today, the people who have to work for...
