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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FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for February 2020 is the Budget Process Enhancement Act, H.R. 5085. Introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the Budget Process Enhancement Act seeks to make common-sense reforms to our budget process and force government agencies to be less wasteful with their share of appropriated taxpayer dollars.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the House Budget Committee’s hearing today on the FY 2021 White House Budget, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks President, commented:
On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to vote NO on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Disaster Tax Relief Act, H.R. 5687. The supplemental appropriations bill is projected to cost $20.77 billion. The budget deficit for FY 2020 is already expected to exceed $1 trillion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook released today that projects a budget deficit of $1 trillion in 2020, Jason Pye, FreedomWorks’ Vice President of Legislative Affairs, commented:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- FreedomWorks submitted a written statement to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is holding a hearing today titled, “Examining the Root Causes of America’s Unsustainable Fiscal Path.” Jason Pye, FreedomWorks’ Vice President of Legislative Affairs, commented:
FreedomWorks has submitted the following statement for the record to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, for their hearing entitled “Examining the Root Causes of America’s Unsustainable Fiscal Path.”
FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for January 2020 is the Know Debt Resolution, H.Res. 686, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). The Know Debt Resolution would require the Clerk of the House of Representatives to place a real-time display of the national debt -- otherwise known as a debt clock -- in the main hearing rooms of both the House Appropriations Committee and the House Budget Committee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to the Senate’s passage today of the Consolidated Appropriations Act and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, both for Fiscal Year 2020, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks’ president, 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.
