Chicago Mayor Defends Spending Campaign Funds On Makeup By Touting Support Of ‘Black And Brown-Owned’ Small Businesses
Chicago’s Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson, defended spending more than $30,000 in campaign funds on makeup and haircuts as support for “Black-owned” small businesses, according to The Center Square. The Johnson campaign spent $4,000 at hair salons and more than $20,000 at cosmetics stores. Election Expense Report It revealed 42 separate expenditures on make-up magic by […]
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Unveils Bill Slashing Federal Spending Programs In Response To Massive Foreign Aid Packages
Republican Florida Rep. Aaron Bean unveiled a bill Thursday that would take an axe to federal spending programs following a massive foreign aid supplemental that passed in April. The legislation, titled the Cutting Unobligated Tumultuous Spending (CUTS) Act, would slash over $100 billion in federal spending by rescinding unobligated COVID-19 relief and various climate initiatives. […]
Blue State Spending Taxpayer Cash On Propaganda Campaign Against Pregnancy Centers
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Democratic Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll announced on Monday the creation of a government-funded campaign against pregnancy resource centers. The government plans to spend $1 million on advertisements in “social media, billboards, radio, and transit,” according to the press release. The goal of the campaign is to show the “dangers […]
Biden Admin Shoots Down $24 Billion Pay Raise For Enlisted Troops — After Spending Seven Times More On Ukraine
The Biden administration is “strongly opposed” to a proposal to raise pay for junior soldiers in the military, even after spending almost seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and broader regional security. The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) draft National Defense Authorization Act for 2025 (NDAA) would give pay to all junior soldiers. increaseThis […]
Democrats see Supreme Court leverage in spending bills
Senate Democratic leaders see the Supreme Court’s annual budget bill as a way to force Supreme Court Justice John Roberts into ethics reforms in the wake of the controversy surrounding conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Specifically, some Democrats want to tie the Supreme Court’s budget to the judges’ adoption of an ethics rule […]
We need to find solutions to the mounting spending crisis
The House will soon debate the first of 12 annual appropriations bills, a measure to fund the government for another year, and the usual fuss is expected over defense and non-defense priorities, policy riders, earmarked budgets, etc. Observers agree that the process will be rife with disagreements and will not be conclusively concluded until after […]
EXCLUSIVE: House GOP Touts Removal Of ‘Far-Left’ Initiatives In Defense Spending Bill
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are touting provisions to the annual defense spending bill targeting several left-wing policies and initiatives, according to a memo on the bill’s provisions obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The HASC passed on May 22 its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an $883 […]
Consumer Spending Weakens in April
Inflation, high interest rates, and the depletion of excess household savings may finally be starting to take a toll on the economy. Commerce Department data released on Friday showed consumer spending rose 0.2% in April, the smallest increase in three months. Economists had expected a 0.4% increase. The slowdown in the main driver of U.S. […]
Rangers spending far too much time in defensive zone
SUNRISE, Fla. — The Rangers played more defensively than they probably wanted in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Panthers, but not as well as they had in the previous two games. The Blueshirts kept the puck on their sticks more often, so they weren’t under siege and were able to control […]
GDP grew just 1.3% last quarter, consumer spending weaker than expected
The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annualized rate in January-March, the slowest quarterly growth rate since spring 2022, the government said Thursday, revising down its previous forecast. Consumer spending increased but at a slower pace than previously expected, suggesting that high interest rates and lingering inflation are putting pressure on household finances. The […]