Senate passes massive spending bill to avoid government shutdown
Senate leaders rolled out a massive two-year budget deal Wednesday, pleasing both parties and preventing a government shutdown, but increases the federal government’s spending. The plan heads to the House. Majority More...
House passed another short-term funding plan, Justin Amash asks ‘When will Republicans start limiting government’
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term funding bill Thursday night to fund the government through February 16, sending the measure to the Senate as lawmakers continue to battle to avoid a government More...
President Obama battles Congress over Zika relief due to ban on Planned Parenthood funding
President Obama has vowed to veto a bill providing more than $1 billion in relief for victims of the Zika virus, in part because it would deny federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Paul Ryan and House Republicans voted More...
New Budget Deal: Spend now, call taxes ‘fees’ and save $2 billion per year over ten years, it’s ‘Mickey Mouse’
FOX News calls the new budget agreement as a “step in the right direction” as the $20 billion is being reported as an impactful step in the right direction against the massive $17 trillion dollar debt.photo/donkeyhotey More...
Paul Ryan explains why he voted ‘Yea’ on fiscal cliff deal
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and former GOP VP candidated explained on Tuesday why he voted in favor of the “fiscal cliff” deal. donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com “We’ll More...
Former Obama advisor, Steve Rattner, calls for Death Panels, rationing for the elderly
Photo credit: Daphne Borowski A former Obama administration official, Steve Rattner, wrote an intense op-ed for the NY Times back on September 16 titled “Beyond Obamacare,” beginning the article: We More...
Paul Ryan ambiguous on tax plan, defends Medicare reform and being Romney’s VP
The Romney campaign is willing to discuss its proposals on taxes “in the light of day,” vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Tuesday evening — just not until after the election. photo/donkeyhotey More...
Delusional GOP budget proposal by Paul Ryan is $3.5 trillion
House Republicans on Tuesday made it official: They’re proposing a $3.53 trillion budget for 2013 that would kill $55 billion in spending cuts aimed at defense and make up for them with savings elsewhere in More...
Massive federal spending, face it, is ‘ludicrous and cruel’
In his April 8th column, Paul Krugman takes his cue from the Democratic National Committee and writes yet another one of his partisan screeds on the Republicans’ federal budget proposals, calling it “ludicrous More...
