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Chairman Arrington Statement on Russ Vought Pick for Trump’s Budget Office
Last week, President Trump announced his nominee for the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought, a former Trump Administration alum and unapologetic fiscal conservative devoted to cutting wasteful government spending. Paul Krawzak with Roll Call wrote in a recent release highlighting Russ Vought’s previous work that aimed to achieve less government regulation, incentives for businesses, and pro-growth policies. Chairman Arrington Statement: House Budget Committee Chairman Arrington … Continue Reading
November 20, 2024
Via the Washington Reporter: “Be Present and Engage”: House GOP Chairwoman Lisa McClain on How Republicans Can Build on 2024’s Successes
Last week, House Budget Committee member Lisa McClain (R-MI) was elected to serve as House Republican Conference Chairwoman for the 119th Congress, leading the charge to return to an ‘America First’ agenda. Voters gave President Trump and Congressional Republicans a mandate to govern. America is now back on a path to fiscal sustainability set forth by our leadership. As James Madison once said, “A public debt is a public curse.” Matthew Foldi with the Washington Reporter wrote in a recent … Continue Reading
November 20, 2024
Via National Taxpayers Union: NTU’s 14th Annual “No Brainers” List: 2024's Top Bipartisan Bills for Taxpayers
This Congress, the House Budget Committee has passed 17 budget process reform bills out of committee. Today, Nicholas Johns with the National Taxpayers Union published a piece highlighting the top 10 “no brainers” list of bipartisan legislative reforms that Congress would be remiss not to pass. The House Budget Committee had four bills on the list that bring sensible, forward-thinking reforms to the federal government’s broken system. Word on the Street: Nicholas Johns, Via the National … Continue Reading
November 18, 2024
Via Fox News Digital: What Is Reconciliation, the Tool Republicans Want to Use to ‘Push the Outer Limits’ on Federal Policy?
Following the 2024 election, Republicans are poised to control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. That has driven interest in the budget reconciliation process. Today, Fox News published an article explaining the budget reconciliation process and highlighting House Republicans’ reconciliation plans for the 119th Congress. Read more to learn about the budget reconciliation process and House Republicans’ priorities. Word on the Street: Elizabeth Elkind, Via Fox News Digital: “GOP … Continue Reading
November 18, 2024
Via the New York Post: With DOGE, Trump Can Seize His Cost-Cutting Mandate — But It’ll Take Courage
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump appointed business leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where they will be tasked with working to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” In a recent New York Post op-ed, John Hart, CEO of Open the Books, notes that reining-in wasteful government spending is paramount to returning the United States … Continue Reading
November 15, 2024
Via The Hill: What a Trump-Musk Government Efficiency Department Should Do in Its First 100 Days
President Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aimed at exposing fraudulent and wasteful spending across federal agencies. Last year alone, the federal government sent a whopping $236 billion in improper payments to individuals or entities that, according to the Government Accountability Office, were ineligible to receive such payments. Earlier this week, Dan Lips, head of policy at the Foundation for American … Continue Reading
October 23, 2024
Via Robert Bryce: Electrifying Everything Means Higher Energy Costs For Consumers. These DOE Numbers Prove It (Again)
For nearly four years, the Biden-Harris Administration has put forth failed economic and energy policies, bringing dire consequences to working families across the United States. Activists like Stacey Abrams continue to maintain that electrification will “bring benefits to environmental justice communities.” However, Robert Bryce, a former Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and energy policy expert, notes that the push to “electrify everything” has burdened Americans with higher energy … Continue Reading
October 22, 2024
Via Townhall: So, This Is Where Taxpayer Dollars Are Going
Last month, Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the cost to taxpayers of Vice President Kamala Harris’s open border agenda on the Medicaid program. CBO’s conclusion: between 2021 and 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration’s open border agenda provided taxpayer-funded emergency Medicaid services to illegal aliens, costing federal and state taxpayers more than $16.2 billion. This is a staggering increase of 124 percent compared to the same period … Continue Reading
October 11, 2024
Via The Washington Examiner: Trump-Musk Government Efficiency Commission Idea Draws Capitol Hill Interest
On September 5th, 2024, following President Trump’s announcement that, should he win, he will establish a government efficiency commission, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX), became the first sitting Member of Congress to publicly endorse President Trump’s proposed commission. Today, Zach Halaschak, an economics reporter at The Washington Examiner, published an article highlighting Chairman Arrington’s support for President Trump’s proposal to conduct a complete … Continue Reading
October 07, 2024
Via the Washington Examiner: Fixing Our Federal Budget with Accountability and Accuracy
Throughout the 118th Congress, the House Budget Committee has worked tirelessly to reinstate transparency, accountability, and oversight of the federal government's broken budget process. Congressman Rudy Yakym (R-IN), who chairs the House Budget Committee’s Budget Process Reform Task Force, published an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner about the Budget Committee’s efforts to exercise oversight of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), reduce unnecessary federal spending, and restore fiscal … Continue Reading
October 02, 2024
Via Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein: 12 Myths That Government-Dictated Green Energy is Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Recently, Alex Epstein released a blog post in advance of the House Budget Committee hearing on the Cost of the Biden-Harris Energy Crisis. The article, titled “12 Myths that Government-Dictated Green Energy is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels,” debunks misleading and inaccurate claims that green energy is beneficial to taxpayers. Green energy policies restrict the use of cost-effective fossil fuels while lavishing substantial subsidies on renewable energy. These policies, which the Biden-Harris … Continue Reading
September 27, 2024
Via The Daily Caller: Biden-Harris Admin On Track To Oversee Massive $1 Trillion In Improper Payments, Watchdog Group Finds
The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on improper payments every year, all at the expense of the American taxpayer. Last year, the federal government sent a whopping $236 billion to individuals or entities that, according to the Government Accountability Office, were ineligible to receive such payments. This brings cumulative improper payment estimates since reporting began in 2003 to $2.7 trillion. Yesterday, Robert Schmad published a piece in The Daily Caller … Continue Reading
September 20, 2024
Via The Washington Examiner: Believe It or Not, the House Budget Committee Is Getting Things Done
Last week, Kevin Kosar, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, published an article in The Washington Examiner highlighting the recent work the House Budget Committee has done to improve the way Congress budgets, as well as its bipartisan efforts to increase accuracy, timeliness, and accountability from the CBO. Throughout the 118th Congress, the House Budget Committee has worked tirelessly to return transparency, accountability, and responsibility to Washington’s broken budget … Continue Reading
September 13, 2024
Via The Debt Dispatch: Fiscal Accountability and Enhancing the CBO’s Role in Preventing a US Debt Crisis
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) plays a crucial role in ensuring lawmakers can equip Members of Congress with critically important budgetary and economic analyses when considering legislation. The House Budget Committee has been working on finding reforms to empower the CBO to provide the most accurate, timely, and accountable information possible to safeguard taxpayer dollars. Earlier this week, Romina Boccia, the Director of Budget and Entitlements at the Cato Institute, published an … Continue Reading
September 03, 2024
Via the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Congress Should Strengthen Administrative PAYGO
This May, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Oversight Task Force Chair Jack Bergman (R-MI) introduced H.R. 8195, Strengthening Administrative PAYGO (SAP) Act of 2024. This proposal recognizes that the tax and spending decisions that add to our exploding national debt take many forms - i.e., executive orders, regulations, and a wide array of executive actions. Administrative PAYGO was designed to prevent these unilateral and arguably unconstitutional actions from … Continue Reading
August 28, 2024
Via the Washington Times: Rep. Jodey Arrington Issues Reminders on the Effects of Bidenomics
Kamalanomics is—believe it or not—worse than Bidenomics. Vice President Harris’s policies would drive us into a long, cold economic winter, crush our children with an insurmountable debt, and hand the keys to future global leadership to China. A recent Washington Times Op-Ed highlighted the work done by the Budget Committee reminding taxpayers that the Biden-Harris Administration continues to disregard the $35 trillion deficit and pursue expensive policies that do little good for the American … Continue Reading
August 28, 2024
Via the Wall Street Journal: Kamala Harris’s ‘Joyful’ War on Entrepreneurs
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Editorial Board recently published a piece highlighting how Democrats have trained their sights on so-called “corporate greed” while neglecting to assess the role that entrepreneurs play in driving economic growth. Using slogans like “leveling the playing field” and “growing the middle class out,” Vice President Kamala Harris and her colleagues have advocated for disruptive and unprecedented policies such as taxing unrealized capital gains at exorbitant … Continue Reading
August 23, 2024
Via City Journal: Biden-Harris Policies Amount to Lifetime Costs of Nearly $50,000 per Family
Since taking office, the Biden-Harris Administration has imposed new regulatory barriers on American families through constitutionally questionable executive actions and burdensome regulations. A recent study by Casey B. Mulligan, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity estimates the lifetime cost of this Administration’s regulatory policies to be $47,000 per family. Professor Mulligan set forth his findings in an Op-Ed in City Journal that … Continue Reading
August 22, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Net Zero Policies are Draining your Wallet and Stifling the American Dream
The Biden-Harris Administration’s “net zero” energy policies have dramatically reshaped our nation’s energy economy for the worse. Another four years of stifling regulations on our energy sector will spur inflation and restrict access to the American dream. Vice presidential candidate and U.S. Senator for Ohio, JD Vance, recently penned an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the surging prices and unplanned economic destruction that the Biden-Harris Administration’s “net- zero” … Continue Reading
August 20, 2024
Via the Wall Street Journal: Drug Price Controls Mean Fewer Cures
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board recently published a piece that highlights how the Biden-Harris Administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is dimming prospects for new medicines through government price controls. With the Biden-Harris Administration releasing the “negotiated” prices for certain drugs in Medicare on August 15, 2024, the WSJ Editorial Board sets the record straight on how the IRA is killing hope for patients who want new lifesaving medicines. Word on … Continue Reading
