Showing posts with label Spending 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2026. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Trump signs DHS funding for ICE and CBP rammed through under reconciliation

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    Trump signs $70 billion immigration funding bill after months of delay ...  Democrats had refused to fund the two Department of Homelan...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

A lasting legacy of Donald Trump may be The Wall after all

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 But Mexico is still not paying for it. Trump Builds the Wall Byron York, Washington Examiner   ... Construction t...

The U.S. federal government has spent north of 100% of what it takes in for most of the time since 1901, that's why we're $39 trillion in the hole, but 2009 and 2020 when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House still stand out

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Sunday, May 31, 2026

The MAGA Marxist wants more stimulus checks

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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Real GDP in 1Q2026 second estimate revised lower from 2.0% annualized to 1.6% annualized "primarily reflecting downward revisions to investment and consumer spending" lol

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 I guess those trillion$ Trump said were coming into the country have not come in, and consumer spending is higher only because everything c...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Republican Congress critters got the hell out of town Thursday and won't be back until June and left all this unfinished business in their wake lol

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  Republicans lash out over $1.776B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  McConnell slams Blanche over ‘slush fund to pay people who assault...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Elections have consequences as Mad King Ludwig eats his own narrow majority in the U.S. Senate and further alienates it

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   Trump's self-destructive alcoholic personality will only make him more legislatively unsuccessful this year than he has been already....
Monday, May 18, 2026

Senate Parliamentarian won't let Republicans spend $1 billion through phony reconciliation interpretation to rebuild East Wing destroyed by the MAGA drone in the Oval Office

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    Trump ballroom money in question after Senate parliamentarian rules. Thune says GOP will persist ... Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonoug...
Friday, May 8, 2026

Trump's dumbass, incompetent deportation policy of prolonged ICE detention until they cry uncle and leave voluntarily is the mouse that roared

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At this rate Trump will have to be president for 138 years to deport 9.5 million illegal aliens.    80k voluntary departures in fourteen mon...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Ronald Reagan's faith in the American people's better judgment about how to spend their own money was . . . misplaced

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"Well, our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big taxspenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know be...

In 1982 Ronald Reagan was really upset about the federal government spending $2 billion a day, in 2025 we spent $20 billion a day

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  "Our Government is spending money at a rate that is intolerable, if not incomprehensible. Almost $2 billion a day, $1,400,000 a minut...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Christopher Caldwell for The New York Times thinks the American Empire has met its match in the Persian Gulf when it already met it a year ago in the Red Sea

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... the United States lacks the military means to impose its will on Iran in a long conflict. In 1991 a million soldiers from more than 40 ...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Hooverville here we come: U.S. House Farm Bill allows hot rotisserie chicken purchases with food stamps, but 23R and 12D were agin it

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Jerome Powell Fed Chair era draws to a close effective May 15, but Powell could remain a Fed governor until his term ends in January 2028

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Fed holds rates steady but with highest level of dissent since 1992 ... In what may have been Chair Jerome Powell ’s final meeting at the h...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Fetterman is still not right in the head

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 Fetterman's recent history of saying some reasonable things makes people on the right treat him like he's some oracle now. But anot...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Yeah, but what Trump saved with military spending cuts to Ukraine he's blowing on the Iran war, which is why he's asking for $1.5 trillion in defense spending next year

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  Europe’s rearmament push drives global military spending to record $2.9 trillion despite U.S. pullback The U.S. national debt is up $3.069...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

That spineless weasel so-called spending hawk Chip Roy (TX-21) is so desperate to win his attorney general race in Texas that he's proposing DHS pay for Trump's ballroom now

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Because socialism is expensive

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  Scarborough: How Did We Spend Trillions On Defense—And We're Running Out Of Munitions After A One-Month War?
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Weasels are most active at night

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As if ICE doesn't have enough money already from the Big Ugly Bill to murder Americans in our own streets, the bloodthirsty GOP Senate has voted to give them MORE intending to use the budget reconciliation trick

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    U.S. Senate votes to advance $70 billion funding plan for ICE, Border Patrol ... Lawmakers voted 50-48 in the predawn ​hours to adopt th...