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October 08, 2025
— As Senate Democrats continue to force a government shutdown, stakeholders from across the political spectrum are weighing in on its impact and the path forward. From fiscal watchdogs to policy advocates, all agree the shutdown threatens economic stability, taxpayers, and public services. Read what top stakeholders are saying: America First Policy Institute 10/5/2025 “This isn’t politics, it’s about PEOPLE. Families deserve a government that works, not one that shuts down and leaves women a… Continue Reading
October 07, 2025—As the government shutdown hits the one-week mark, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) issued the following statement to remind Americans of Democrats’ record on government funding and open-border policies. Democrats voted for 13 clean continuing appropriations bills (CR) under Biden. Now, they’re rejecting a clean CR and providing a completely unserious counteroffer of $1.5 trillion in new spending, a repeal of work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients, and p… Continue Reading
October 01, 2025—Today House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement after House and Senate Democrats voted against the clean Continuing Resolution. "The Democrats’ wildly unserious demands for an additional $1.5 trillion—including health care for illegals and welfare for able-bodied adults who refuse to work—will result in veterans and vulnerable citizens suffering lack of services, military contracts being cancelled, and taxpayers and the economy losing billions of dollars.… Continue Reading
October 09, 2025
— The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board argues that Republicans shouldn’t fear the politics of allowing the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies to expire, contending that Democrats are using the government funding fight to secure a $400 billion extension for a pandemic-era entitlement that should have ended years ago. WORD ON THE STREET From the Wall Street Journal: “Democrats are demanding that Republicans extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies that Democrats passed in 2021 for a pandemic emergency… Continue Reading
October 03, 2025
— The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board warns that Democrats are using Biden’s COVID-era subsidies to pressure Republicans into extending costly entitlement expansions. The editorial emphasizes these “turbocharged” subsidies—originally passed during the pandemic—have been expanded to high-income households and are projected to cost taxpayers nearly half a trillion dollars if extended. It also notes that letting the subsidies expire would not dismantle the Affordable Care Act and could encourag… Continue Reading
October 02, 2025
—In an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal, Ge Bai, a professor of accounting and health policy at Johns Hopkins University, argues against Democrats big-government push to extend wasteful, COVID-era premium subsidies for Obamacare plans, set to cost taxpayers $400 billion over the next decade. Congress should let these subsidies expire—just as lawmakers originally designed--and rein in waste, fraud, and abuse to protect taxpayers. From the Wall Street Journal: Affordable Care Act premi… Continue Reading
February 25, 2025
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in theWashington Examinermaking the case for hisTrump-endorsed House budget resolution that delivers on the President’s transformative America-First agenda with one comprehensive piece of legislation. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: “The House Budget Committee has taken a decisive first step in advancing President Trump’s America First agenda. By pursuing the 2025 Budget Resolution, we have launched… Continue Reading
January 30, 2025U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal highlighting how surging debt and resulting interest costs are threatening America’s economic standing and the historic opportunity for President Trump and congressional Republicans to restore fiscal sanity to Washington. Chairman Arrington in The Wall Street Journal: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is concerned about America’s large and growing national deficit. “We have never seen this… Continue Reading
December 12, 2024Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner sounding the alarm on the federal government’s unbridled spending habits and the need to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: Via the Washington Examiner: “The Democrats’ spending spree in Washington during 2021 and 2022 sparked countless economic problems. Runaway government spending drove skyrocketing prices, draining household s… Continue Reading
