Where Can Congress Find Room to Cut? Look to Obamacare.
Where can Congress’ “super committee” find its $1.2-trillion target in savings? The answer is hidden in plain sight. The money could come from Obamacare, to… Read More
Where can Congress’ “super committee” find its $1.2-trillion target in savings? The answer is hidden in plain sight. The money could come from Obamacare, to… Read More
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This week, the U.S. national debt clock hit a nightmarish milestone: a record $15 trillion. Words can’t even begin to describe the scope of borrowed… Read More
What’s a supercommittee to do? Total national debt just hit a new record at $15 trillion, an increase of approximately $700 billion since the Supercommittee’s… Read More
Seventy-two Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Representatives Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), have joined 33 U.S. Senators in standing tall… Read More
Yesterday, the United States hit an unsavory milestone–$15 trillion in total national debt. Unfortunately, the number shouldn’t have come as a surprise. America’s debt has… Read More
Congress this week finds itself in a predicament of its own making. To show how serious they are about solving America’s deepening fiscal crisis, Republicans… Read More
What happens if the “super committee” fails to meet its target of $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving and sequestration is triggered? It would… Read More
The Heritage Foundation has consistently urged, and continues to urge, that the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known as the Supercommittee, “go big”… Read More
Cracks in the Budget Control Act’s (BCA) spending caps are growing more visible as negotiators near completion of the first three appropriations bills for fiscal… Read More
The left continues to resist any suggestion of spending cuts right now. In their view, a depressed economy is no time to slash spending; that… Read More