Americans should be angry that inflation just hit a new 40-year high of 9.1%. They should be furious that Congress has fed the spending thatâs fueled inflation by bringing back earmarks. Twelve years after Congress banned pork-barrel spending, some Washington lawmakers are embracing it againâin a big way. In March, they approved nearly $10 billion in âcommunity projects.â What are those? […] READ MORE
You saw the news: Inflation just hit 9.1%âeven higher than expected, and a new record since 1981. What does that mean for you and millions of other Americans day to day? Families spent nearly $500 extra just to get by in the last month compared to the year before. And as inflation has spiked, more people are struggling to […] READ MORE
The American people might be done with COVID, but President Biden and his liberal allies clearly arenât done using it as a reason to give the government more power. We learned yesterday that the Biden administration plans to extend the public health emergency declaration for COVID for the 11th time. Theyâre not doing it because of infection or mortality […] READ MORE
Washington has blown through nearly $5 trillion and brought inflation to a 40-year high since President Biden took office. And it looks like theyâre still not done hammering our economy. Now, liberals in Congress are negotiating with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to shove through yet another trillion-dollar tax-and-spend bill. Not only would it throw even more spending fuel onto […] READ MORE
Itâs usually obvious how Washington wastes your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. But one of the governmentâs least-known expenses is also one of its largest: interest on our national debt. Last week, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget issued a new report that shows just how serious Americaâs mostly-forgotten debt problem really is: The federal government will spend $400 billion on interest payments […] READ MORE
Weâve known for a while that conservative-led states outperformed liberal ones during COVID. And itâs no surprise that the gap between them keeps growingâsince freedom always wins. States that trusted businesses and workers to do whatâs best are still creating more opportunity and more prosperity than ones that handed unchecked power to politicians and bureaucrats. Red states have added nearly […] READ MORE
Itâs bad enough that big corporations try to force-feed us their liberal ideology. But big labor has gone woke, too. In a new video, Stand For America shines a light on how unions have thrown their weight behind far-left activism instead of helping workers. Over the last few years, unions have directed more than $1.6 billion to […] READ MORE
Communist China lies to us, steals from us, and threatens American interests across the globe. Now, itâs clear they can spy on us through one of the most popular social media apps in the country. New proof came after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and eight of her colleagues sent a letter to TikTok demanding answers about whether employees […] READ MORE
We hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July with your family, friends, and loved ones. Ours is the freest, safest, and most prosperous country in the history of the world. And it never would have come to be if a handful of brave individuals hadnât written these words 246 years ago: âWe hold these truths to be self-evident, […] READ MORE
Thereâs no doubt that parents know whatâs best for their kids. So three cheers for lawmakers in Arizona, who just empowered every parent in their state to give their kids the education thatâs right for them. Last Friday, the Arizona legislature passed a school choice bill that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has promised to sign. It will empower every single one […] READ MORE
