Yellen to Pelosi: Congress Must Raise the U.S. Debt Limit
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday that unless Congress acted quickly to raise the statutory limit on the amount of money the federal government can…
Obama Leaves Office Having Added $9.3 Trillion to Debt
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Former President Obama left office having added $9.3 trillion to the national debt, according to numbers from the Treasury Department. When Obama took office…
$20 trillion man: National debt nearly doubles during Obama presidency
By Dave Boyer • The Washington Times When President Obama signs into law the new two-year budget deal Monday, his action will bring into sharper focus…
Flashback: Obama Says Adding $4 Trillion to National Debt ‘Unpatriotic’
This article was published on March 20, 2012. By Matt Cover • CNSNews.com Although the national debt under President Barack Obama has increased $4 trillion since…
Federal Taxes Receipts At an All Time High
$2,883,250,000,000: Federal Taxes Set Record Through August; $19,346 Per Worker; Feds Still Run $530B Deficit By Terence P. Jeffrey • Investor’s Business Daily The federal government…
Federal Tax Revenues Set Record Through April
by Terence P. Jeffrey Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed April at $1,735,030,000,000,…
5 years later: How’s that Wreckovery working out for ya?
by Michelle Malkin On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun and the moon and the stars. That was the day, five years ago, when he signed the $800…
Federal Debt Jumped $409 Billion in October
And Obama said that increasing the debt limit didn’t increase debt. The debt of the federal government, which is normally subject to a legal limit, jumped by $409 billion in…
‘Debt Ceilings’ Actually Do Increase Debt
by Gary Becker and Edward Lazear The recent wrangling in Washington over the debt ceiling, with both sides promising to return to battle early next year, never got around to…
Debt and Deficit are still the Problem
by Rand Paul During the shutdown, 85 percent of government stayed open despite the hoopla reported in the media. Government is now 100 percent open. Debt-ceiling deadlines have been averted,…
How the Shutdown can inform the debt ceiling debate
by George Landrith & Iain Murray It’s all-shutdown-all-the-time in Washington these days. But all that talk has obscured the far bigger challenge facing the nation next week, when the government…
Politics of the shutdown evident in actions of Obama administration
For furloughed workers, the federal government shutdown has clearly had an impact. But for most citizens, the shutdown has been notable for largely going unnoticed. That’s not because federal officials…
A Crisis of the President’s Own Making
Unless Mr. Obama is willing to make a serious deal on spending, he will spend the next three years fighting the same budget wars over and over. For months now,…
Only Obama & Jack Lew Can Cause a Default
One remarkable aspect of the shutdown/debt limit battle is the irresponsibility (on the part of the Obama administration) and incompetence (on the part of the news media) concerning the claim…
Debt v. Spending
by Gordon S. Jones Since getting the boot from the United States Senate, Bob Bennett has been writing a weekly column in the Deseret News, one of Utah’s two daily…