
Federal Funding


Trump Administration Starts Fiscal Year 2020 With an Even Bigger Deficit
If you hoped the Trump administration would take some kind of action to slow down spending after running the biggest budget deficit in seven years in FY2019, you’ll be disappointed. In fact, the administration ramped up spending in the first month of FY2020. The...
Police State: Orwellian Pre-Crime and National “Surge”
With the announcement of two separate, but related new “crime-fighting” plans, local police is set to be even more nationalized than it already is. First, a new “pre-crime” approach to shootings. And what’s being called a police...
Trump Budget Deficit Tops 2018 Shortfall With Two Months Left to Go
The Trump administration continues to spend America into a black hole and has already topped last year’s budget deficit with two months left in the fiscal year. The U.S. budget deficit in July came in at $119.7 billion, according to data released by the Treasury...
Bipartisan Fiscal Suicide
WASHINGTON (July 26, 2019) – Trump’s bipartisan spending deal took a step closer to reality on Thursday when the House passed a budget bill by a 284-149 vote. The bill increases discretionary spending from $1.32 trillion in the current fiscal year to $1.37...