This Budget Guts Defense
Tuesday’s Associated Press report that President Obama is considering large cuts in our strategic arsenal is just the latest of this week’s grim news about the president’s national-defense plans.
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Tuesday’s Associated Press report that President Obama is considering large cuts in our strategic arsenal is just the latest of this week’s grim news about the president’s national-defense plans.
Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus' (Reform) nomination as Estonia's candidate for the European Court of Auditors was submitted to the EU despite criticism arising over the application, ERR has been told.
The Ryan budget represents real progress toward tackling the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges.
President Donald Trump went bold last month when he directed Cabinet members to cut spending by 5 percent for their upcoming annual budgets.
In October 2008, Congress raised the debt limit to $11.3 trillion. Then presidential candidate Barack Obama denounced the action as “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic.” But those were the good ol' days, when Congress actually put a statutory limit on the debt. Seven years later, Congress has become only more fiscally irresponsible. Today the national debt has climbed to $18.1 trillion — 60 percent higher than the “unpatriotic” limit set just seven years ago. And it's only going to get worse.