MORGANTOWN -- After nearly five decades providing and promoting better services to West Virginians with disabilities, the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities has about 60 days remaining without a budgetary Hail Mary. It’s not alone. All University Centers for Excellence in ...
by Kathryn Anne Edwards For more than two decades, America has pursued a policy as costly as the New Deal of the 1930s or the Great Society of the 1960s, but with a much narrower aim: cut taxes. Judging from the Congressional Budget Office’s latest forecasts, it has gone much too ...
Fractured GOP the biggest obstacle Faced with looming deadlines to produce a federal budget, the top Republican in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the top Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, agree that Pentagon funding for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 should be ...
by Jonah Goldberg The House Freedom Caucus is largely right about debt and deficits. Some members might be staggering hypocrites, given that they had little problem with Donald Trump’s spending when he was president. They’re also right that the budget deal worked out between ...
The stunning rebuke of Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker is yet another indication of the dysfunction of Congress. In this case, the House Republican majority was overruled by eight far-right renegades who claim they are trying to control spending. Of course, Republican concerns about the debt ...
by James-Christian B. Blockwood Though the 2024 presidential general election is more than a year away, primary races have already begun. Early polling results tend to influence messaging, and it seems the more provocative the talking points — those that move a candidate to one side ...