Tag: Democrats

January 23, 2023

This week the US government reached its 31.4 trillion dollars borrowing limit, better known as the “debt ceiling.” This led to a showdown among House Republicans, President Biden, and congressional Democrats. House Republicans are demanding that President Biden and Senate […]

August 2, 2022

The Democrats’ $769 billion social spending bill is “a bad bill” that will “do nothing but draw the economy even further into the ground,” Rep. David Rouzer (R-N.C.) said Tuesday. “This is a bad bill. This is a really bad […]

April 27, 2022

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard, by a 52-43 vote, to serve as the central bank’s vice chair. Then the drama unfolded. Democrats had initially planned to push ahead with a vote on fellow Fed nominee […]

March 30, 2022

I have been writing for years about how progressive policies championed by the Democratic Party and served up under the guise of caring about low-income Americans wind up hurting these very communities. The latest chapter in this saga is the […]

October 26, 2021

Democrats need to rethink their plan to tax billionaires on their unrealized capital gains, which will discourage investment in the U.S. economy, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told Fox News on Monday. “I think it’s a big mistake,” he said. “Well, […]

October 4, 2021

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durban says he supports the $3.5-trillion reconciliation bill that has caused a split in the Democrat Party. Leftist Democrats insist that the bill — full of new entitlement programs — must pass either before or along […]

June 28, 2021

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a pivotal vote in the evenly divided Senate, on Sunday described himself as a “fiscally responsible and socially compassionate” man who wants to find middle ground with both sides. He’s plugging both a bipartisan physical infrastructure […]

March 8, 2021

The Senate on Saturday passed the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus bill without a single Republican vote. This week, the House plans to take up the Senate bill, to avoid further negotiations. White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, speaking to CNN’s […]

December 20, 2017

A recent poll found that, for the first time since 2013, most Americans think Democrats would do a better job handling the economy. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 35 percent of respondents say the Democratic Party […]