Budget

On Monday, Brandon Gillespie at FoxNews.com reported on The Washington Post fretting that White House willingness to appease West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin by not increasing spending quite as much – but still spend trillions – was somehow the equivalent of making “grueling cuts.” Of course this is about legislation that hasn’t even passed yet.

Liberal ignorance of flyover country was on full display on CNN this morning. On New Day, CNN commentator Dr. Abdul El-Sayed—a Bernie Sanders ally—suggested that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin should support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill because it includes funds to address climate change. El-Sayed claimed that "climate change is ravaging coastal states like his." West…

On Thursday, Republican Senator Pat Toomey repeatedly embarrassed leftist CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil by dismantling the anchor’s Democratic Party talking points about raising the nation’s debt limit. The GOP lawmaker called out Dokoupil for pushing “a partisan political point of view that’s designed to provide cover for the Democrats’ spending.”

On her MSNBC show Wednesday afternoon, worried and frustrated anchor Andrea Mitchell bemoaned moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema refusing to support wasting trillions on socialism. The left-wing host channeled radical House Democrats demanding President Biden “get tougher” and tell the lawmakers to “get in line.”

The night after they ranted about how CNN supposedly had high journalistic standards, and repeated suggestions that they were against the two-party system and didn’t belong to any party, hosts Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and Don Lemon spent a lot of time Wednesday night batting for progressive Democrats as they tried to take swings at the knees of moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and…

On Tuesday’s CBS Mornings, senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe was visibly frustrated that congressional Democrats were “squabbling” over the cost of their massive spending plans rather than focusing on how to “reshape” the country with radical socialism. Upset co-host Gayle King compared lawmakers to petulant children fighting in the back seat of a car during a family…

There’s a new battle brewing over the federal debt ceiling. Ten years ago, after the Obama administration instigated massive federal spending to deal with the Great Recession, Republicans insisted on long-term deficit reduction, and the liberal media slammed them as nihilists, hostage-takers, terrorists, suicide bombers and zombie vampires.

Today's politicians want to spend more on EVERYTHING: Amtrak subsidies, sports stadium subsidies, green energy subsidies, even fossil fuel subsidies ... President Joe Biden says the handouts will "put more money in your pocket." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims they will "protect the planet for the children." They might. But a disproportionate amount of the money will end up in the hands of…

The deadline is fast approaching for Congress to approve raising the debt ceiling, and the liberal media is astonished that Republicans will not simply go along with it. The increase, which needs Republican support to pass, is one requirement for the passage of the Biden administration’s exorbitant $3.5 trillion budget plan. Without increasing the debt ceiling, the US government cannot go into…

Responding to Democrats in her party who are troubled by the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill that would forever transform America into a debtor nation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked a question: “Where would you cut?” Her question carries with it a conceit held by many contemporary politicians that every government program is sacred and must not be touched. Even suggesting that a decrease in…

On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe joined The New York Times in hitting Democrats from the left and whining that the plan by left-wing lawmakers to hike taxes by $2 trillion to fund massive socialist spending was too “moderate.” After hyping a Times article that wailed about the proposed legislation failing to “dent the vast fortunes” of the wealthy, the show’s liberal…

On Sunday, the leftist media went to work slamming Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for daring to oppose his party’s effort to waste trillions of taxpayer dollars on a radical socialist agenda. In multiple interviews, he was urged to abandon his principled objections and even accused of corrupt collusion with the fossil fuel industry to block climate change measures in the wildly…

The front page of Wednesday’s New York Times warned “Big Business Mobilizing to Battle Tax Proposals.” The text box: “Democrats’ Ambitions for Social Spending Are on the Line.” Trillions of dollars of new spending, in fact, as well as tax hikes on “the rich.” Reporters Jonathan Weisman, Alan Rappeport, and Jim Tankersley clearly took the side of President Biden and liberal big-…

You don't have to wait for an infrastructure bill to arrive on Joe Biden's desk. John Avlon and CNN Newsroom substitute host Erica Hill began Wednesday's show by hailing and fawning over President Biden for having most transformative and impactful first year as president since Ronald Reagan.