GOP backs massive spending bill days before taking control of the House

GOP backs massive spending bill days before taking control of the House

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2022 The omnibus spending package that is about to be passed by Congress days before Republicans take control of the House contains 6,825 pages: 4,155 pages of legislative text plus 2,670 pages of explanatory materials that instruct agencies how to carry out the provisions and include at least 4,000 […]

Midterms confirmed Uniparty rule and new-old conventional wisdom: Trump can’t win

Midterms confirmed Uniparty rule and new-old conventional wisdom: Trump can’t win

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2022 “Republicans are emasculated. They have no power, and they are unwilling to gain that power back. The Republicans do not have the intestinal fortitude. They always collapse, and they fear shutting government down — so no policy objectives ever get added.” Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said that […]

Rand Paul: Republicans have ‘totally abdicated power of the purse’

Rand Paul: Republicans have ‘totally abdicated power of the purse’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2022 Republicans completely “emasculated” themselves in agreeing to the Democrats’ framework for an omnibus spending bill to fund the government through 2023, Sen. Ron Paul said on Wednesday. “This brings upon us the lie that Republicans really are fiscally conservative,” the Kentucky Republican said on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow”. Democrats, […]

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 President Donald Trump first threatened to veto and then signed Congress’s massive spending bill that appropriates funds for only a fraction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted on March 23: “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the […]