The national debt and the unrestrained growth of government spending are among the greatest threats to our nation’s future. Each year, the federal government spends more and more of your dollars on corporate handouts, pork-barrel projects, welfare programs and out of control entitlements. Unless something is done, interest payments on the debt alone will consume the entire budget by the year 2050. Taxpayers can no longer afford this. We need to cut spending and balance the budget before it’s too late.
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Debatably the most important power delegated to Congress is its power of the purse. However, it never uses this power correctly. This week, the United States’ national debt surpassed the $22 trillion mark. Also this week, Congress passed a multi-hundred-billion dollar spending bill in order to cover for its inability to do its job properly. Congress was behind schedule by nearly half of an entire year on funding the government for this fiscal year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to fund the southern border wall, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and representative and ask them to vote NO on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, Conference Report to H.J.Res. 31. The text of the 1,169-page bill, which contains funding for the remaining seven appropriations bills that Congress has thus far failed to pass for Fiscal Year 2018, was released overnight. It spends profligately as Congress recklessly attempts to cover for itself being nearly six months late on doing its job.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the report that the U.S. national debt has now surpassed $22 trillion, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the report that the FAQ document released in conjunction with the Green New Deal resolution, H. Res. 109, was in fact incorrect and subsequently retracted, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, issued the following statement:
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the CBO Show Your Work Act, H.R. 1077. Introduced by Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), the CBO Show Your Work Act would require the Congressional Budget Office to make its models and data available to Congress and the public.
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Cost Estimates Improvement Act, H.R. 638. Introduced by Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), the Cost Estimates Improvement Act would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to provide the costs of servicing the public debt when producing cost-estimates of legislation and a list of any duplicative activities covered by a bill.
House Republicans took a hit in the 2018 midterms, in no small part because of failure to follow through on policy measures promised to voters in past election cycles.
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor the CBO Show Your Work Act, S. 278. Introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), the CBO Show Your Work Act would require the Congressional Budget Office to make its models and data available to Congress and the public.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the CBO’s recent report that the partial federal government shutdown cost the U.S. economy $3 billion, John Tamny, Director of the FreedomWorks Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom, commented:
The National Debt has doubled in just the past 5 years. It's projected to triple over the next 10 years. Washington is now borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends.
