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Biden’s Budget: Gargantuan Spending, Massive Tax Hikes, Yet Shortchanging Defense
'President Biden Will Propose A $6 Trillion Budget On Friday That Would Take The United States To Its Highest Sustained Levels Of Federal Spending Since World War II, While Running Deficits Above $1.3 Trillion Throughout The Next Decade' Yet Also 'Sidelines Defense Spending In Favor Of Massive Domestic Investments' "President Joe Biden will unveil the first detailed budget proposal of his term in office on May 28, a day later than originally planned, the White House said on Wednesday." ("Bid… Continue Reading
05.27.21
Violent Crime Has Soared In American Cities As Democrats Began To Defund The Police
'Crime Is Skyrocketing In Many Big Cities,' But Some Jurisdictions Have Cut Police Budgets In Response To 'Defund The Police' Demands And Many Others Are Rapidly Losing Police Officers SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "From coast to coast, American families are facing an explosion of violent crime on their streets and in their neighborhoods. 2020 saw homicides skyrocket nationwide. The sharpest one-year increase in decades. And 2021 is already shaping up to be even worse…… Continue Reading
05.19.21
Employers Struggle To Compete For Workers Against Government Benefits
All Across The Country, Employers Say They Cannot Recruit Workers, Despite Offering Higher Salaries And Even Bonuses, Because Some People Are 'Making More Money On Unemployment,' But Republican Governors Are Leading The Way In Ending Enhanced Government Benefits To Get People Back To Work And The Economy Back On Track As The Economy Reopens, Employers Are Struggling To Recruit Workers As They Compete With 'Enhanced Unemployment Benefits From The Government' "There's a wild card in the pus… Continue Reading
05.18.21
Markup Recap: Democrats Vote To Retain All The Most Egregious, Partisan Provisions Of Their Power Grab Over American Elections
During Last Week's Markup Of S.1, Democrats' Partisan Proposal To Rewrite Election Laws In All 50 States, Democrats On The Senate Rules Committee Voted To Spend Public Money On Their Own Campaigns, Mutate The FEC Into A Partisan Cudgel, Police Core Political Speech While Supercharging Political Intimidation And Cancel Culture, And Eviscerate State Voter ID Laws SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "A one-party takeover of our political system. That's what Senate Democrats brought t… Continue Reading
05.13.21
Dems’ Slush Fund Helps Gavin Newsom Propose Paying Off Californians And Illegal Aliens With Money From Taxpayers In 49 Other States
The Treasury Department Announced This Week It's Handing Out Money From The Democrats' Massive Stimulus Bill To States With Little To No Revenue Shortfalls, Which The Dem Governor Of California Wants To Use To Hand Out Checks In Advance Of His Recall Election "The Biden administration will begin sending $350 billion in aid to state and local governments this month … White House and Treasury officials said on Monday." ("The Biden Administration Will Begin Disbursing $350 Billion In State … Continue Reading
05.13.21
Democrats’ Massive Spending Bill Leading To Unfortunate Yet Obvious Economic Results
Republican Warnings About Democrats' Spending Spree Are Coming True As Business Owners Have To Compete With Enhanced Unemployment Benefits As They Struggle To Hire Workers The April Jobs Report Was 'The Biggest Miss, Relative To Expectations, In Decades' "Hiring was a huge letdown in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers. Dow Jones estimates had been for 1 million… Continue Reading
05.11.21
All Of The Worst Provisions Remain In Democrats’ Partisan Election Takeover
As Democrats Prepare To Mark Up S.1, The Democrat Politician Protection Act, It Still Would Funnel Public Money To Politicians' Campaigns, Turn The FEC Into A Partisan Weapon, Unconstitutionally Regulate Core Political Speech And Encourage Political Intimidation, And Consolidate Control Over Elections In Washington While Undermining Voter ID Requirements And Imposing Ballot Harvesting On States "The Senate is headed for a showdown over Democrats' sweeping voting rights and election overhaul … Continue Reading
04.30.21
Adulation For Sen. Tim Scott’s Inspirational Address
Praise Pours In For Sen. Tim Scott's (R-SC) 'Compelling,' 'Brilliant,' 'Inspiring And Hopeful,' 'Powerful And True' Republican Response Sen. Scott's Colleagues: 'Tim Scott Is A Brave, Courageous, And Inspirational Leader,' 'He Gave A Bright & Hopeful Message To America,' And Did 'An Outstanding Job Showing The American People An Alternative … Conservative Point Of View And Did It In A Way That Was Respectful' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Senator Tim Scott i… Continue Reading
04.30.21
President Biden’s Bait-And-Switch Speech
In His First Major Address To Congress, President Biden Wiped Away His Campaign Trail Assertion That 'Americans Aren't Looking For Revolution' And Instead Embraced 'A Breathtaking Scope Of Change' That Would Amount To 'The Biggest Expansion Of American Government In Decades' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "This isn't what the American people voted for. This country just elected a 50-50 Senate, a very closely-divided House, and a President who talked a big game about cutting de… Continue Reading
04.28.21
‘Centrist Words, Liberal Actions’: Biden’s First 100 Days
Though Joe Biden Ran As A Unifying Figure, The Record Of His First 100 Days Is One Of Partisan Ideological Left-Wing Governance President Biden Pledged Unity But Has Spent His First 100 Days Governing From The Left Despite Biden's Call For Unity, His First Actions As President Were 'To Advance A Liberal Agenda' And 'Offer Little Compromise' The Rhetoric: 'Unity Is The Path Forward … I Will Fight As Hard For Those Who Did Not Support Me As For Those Who Did,' '[The American People]… Continue Reading
04.23.21
Democrats Vote To Allow Colleges To Discriminate Against Asian-Americans
Not A Single Senate Democrat Voted For An Amendment Offered By Sens. Ted Cruz And John Kennedy That Would Have Denied Funding For Universities That Discriminate Against Asian-Americans In Admissions SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): "This amendment is straightforward. It targets the ongoing discrimination that is being directed against Asian-Americans by colleges and universities across the country, including preeminent institutions such as Yale and Harvard, which are denying admission to qualified Asia… Continue Reading
04.22.21
Dems Agree Biden Infrastructure Plan Is A Stalking Horse For Their Radical Green New Deal
'The Far Left Sees A Strong Family Resemblance Between These Proposals And Their Socialist Green New Deal. [This Week] The House And Senate Authors Of That Manifesto Reintroduced It, While Noting, And Boasting, That The DNA Of The Green New Deal Is All Over President Biden's Legislative Proposals' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Early on, a major theme of the Biden Administration has been false advertising. We have the so-called 'COVID relief bill' that broke a long biparti… Continue Reading
04.20.21
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans United Against Far-Left Justice Dept. Nominee
SEN. CORNYN: 'The Opposition To [Vanita] Gupta Is A Direct Result Of Her History Of Inflammatory Public Statements, Radical Policy Positions, And A Laundry List Of Misleading Statements' Republican Judiciary Committee Members: 'Ms. Gupta's Answers To Questions Were Troubling To Many Members On The Committee, Including … The Fact That It Appears That Many Of Those Answers Were Inconsistent With Her Past Statements' And 'There Remain Significant Questions About Ms. Gupta's Temperament… Continue Reading
04.16.21
Democrats Breathe New Life Into The Ugly Cadaver Of Court Packing
As A Group Of Hard Left Democrats Stood On The Steps Of The Supreme Court To Introduce Legislation To Pack It And Thereby 'Destroy Its Legitimacy [In Order To] Guarantee The Rulings Liberals Want,' It Was Clear That The Recent Words And Actions Of Democrats Who Weren't There Encouraged This Radical Power Grab SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Time and time again, prominent Democrats show they're no longer content to work within the ground rules and norms of our institutions, … Continue Reading
04.15.21
Americans Reject Democrats’ Attempts To Redefine ‘Infrastructure’
With Democrats Trying To Redefine Infrastructure To Mean Any Left-Wing Program On Any Subject They've Ever Desired, A New Poll Finds Most Americans Agree With The Traditional Definition Of Infrastructure And Have Little Appetite For Lashing It To Expansive Liberal Wish Lists SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "[Recently] the Biden Administration unveiled their latest misleadingly-titled legislation. This time, under the supposed veil of 'infrastructure', the White House has lump… Continue Reading
04.09.21
Democrats’ Taxpayer-Financed State Slush Fund Helps NY & CA As They Dole Out Cash For Illegal Immigrants
As Waves Of Migrants Continue To Flood The Southern U.S. Border, The Left-Wing Democrat-Dominated State Governments Of New York And California Are Writing Checks To Illegal Immigrants While Those States Get A Windfall Of Federal Money From Democrats' Partisan Stimulus Bill New York Democrats Are Sending $2.1 Billion To Illegal Immigrants … "[A]fter a sweeping move by lawmakers this week, New York will now offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost … Continue Reading
04.07.21
To Redefine Infrastructure Spending, Democrats Choose ‘Violence To The English Language’
As Democrats Attempt To Justify The Massive Spending On Social Programs And Other 'Liberal Wish List' Items In President Biden's Supposed 'Infrastructure' Proposal, They Are Nakedly Attempting To Redefine 'Infrastructure' To Include Things Most Americans Would Never Consider 'Infrastructure' SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Our nation could use a serious, targeted infrastructure plan. There would be bipartisan support for a smart proposal. Unfortunately, the latest liberal w… Continue Reading
04.01.21
A ‘Trojan Horse’ Infrastructure Plan
Behind The Veneer Of 'Infrastructure,' President Biden's $2.25 Trillion Plan Is 'A Way Of Accomplishing Many Of The Goals Of The Green New Deal' And Not A Targeted Infrastructure Plan SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "Our nation could use a serious, targeted infrastructure plan. There would be bipartisan support for a smart proposal. Unfortunately, the latest liberal wish-list the White House has decided to label 'infrastructure' is a major missed opportunity by this Administ… Continue Reading
03.25.21
Harris Is Now In Charge Of The Border Mess, But Her Comments Helped Fuel The Crisis
The Biden Administration's Policies And 'Terrible' Messaging Led To The Crisis At The Border, And Putting Kamala Harris, Who Once Said She Favors Decriminalizing Unauthorized Border Crossings, Shows How Unserious They Are About Solving It 'Biden Transition Officials Understood The Risks … Yet Biden Immediately Embarked On An Aggressive Strategy To Roll Back Trump Administration Policies,' 'The Administration Also Took Several Steps … That Increased The Flow Of Migrants And En… Continue Reading
03.24.21
The Democrat Politician Protection Act’s Assault On America’s State-Run Elections
Democrats' Partisan Bill 'Usurps States' Authority Over Elections' Forcing One-Size-Fits-All Dicta From Washington On Everything From Mandating Use Of Technology That Doesn't Yet Exist To Gutting Voter ID Laws To Compelling States To Allow Ballot Harvesting To A New Unaccountable Redistricting Process SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): "In this country, states and localities run elections. Those of us in the federal government do not get a stranglehold over the ways in which vote… Continue Reading
