an independent commission set to begin in President-elect Trump’s second term, promises to cut the government down to size. But in the conversations surrounding reducing spending, people have overlooked a key point: aligning government workers’ interests with...
Project America illustrated overall U.S. federal government spending by department. The Department of Defense is not shown: Click on the chart below to see an enlarged, clearer chart. For additional information, click onProject America: Budget: Spending: Spending By Department. Project America il...
Although the standard view is that it removes political power from the center, I find that decentralization could concentrate such power more at local level, which may give the President political advantages within unaligned states through aligned localities....
According to conventional wisdom, the federal government grows faster when a Democrat is in the White House than it does when a Republican is president. Yet the record shows that federal spending actually grew at a slower rate under liberal Democrat Bill Clinton than it did under President George...
Since then, spending has crept up again despite thesequester. Congress and the president rely on deficit spending to boost economic growth.6Butdeficit spending is out of control. It rises each year, even when the economy is doing well. ...
A Washington think tank argues in a recent report that the federal government is a poor manager of education spending. The Cato Institute suggests that federal dollars go to many projects that should not be receiving them, when measured against the U.S. Department of Education's mission statemen...
Former President Donald Trump Former tells business leaders he'll lead a “national economic renaissance” by slashing regulations to boost energy production, drastically cutting government spending and reducing taxes for companies that produce in the US
aWashington,Dec.I4-A group of federal,state,and local government officials rejected today President Nixon's idea that the federal government provide the financial aid that would permit local governments to reduce property taxes. 华盛顿, Dec.I4-A小组联邦,州和当地政府官员今天拒绝了尼克松总统的想法...
Bethany Blankley | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024 The wages at these companies is tied to the federal minimum wage, which will not increase in 2025. Erin Glynn,...
From 1919 to 1921, both the House and the Senate took steps to rein in government spending by centralizing appropriations authority once again.10 However, after the1929 stock market crashbrought about the Great Depression, Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were compelled to pass theSocia...