Joe Biden has proven to be a very expensive president for Americans.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – August 9, 2023 In June, the Biden White House pushed all its chips in on a big gamble. The administration took full ownership of the economic status quo with which most Americans were deeply dissatisfied, branding it a product of “Bidenomics.” The administration assumed that conditions would continue to improve into 2024 to such an extent...

By: Andy Puzder – nationalreview.com – July 5, 2023 President Biden is on a “Bidenomics” tour, trumpeting what he claims are his administration’s economic gains. His effort comes as no surprise. In the RealClearPolitics average of the polls, only about 38 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s job on the economy. To date, the Biden administration’s efforts to convince Americans...

President Biden took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to defend his economic record.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 31, 2023 Some conservatives are grousing that the debt-ceiling bill negotiated by Speaker Kevin McCarthy has left President Biden’s legislation of the last two years largely intact. That’s undeniable, but we also wonder what political planet these folks are occupying. Members of the House Freedom Caucus and 71 Republicans in total voted...

Soon both Social Security and Medicare will be broke. Our politicians don’t have the guts to do anything about it. Or even talk about it.

By Kevin McCarthy – wsj.com – May 28, 2023 In Washington, wasteful government spending almost always goes up. “When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt,” Ronald Reagan observed. “When government does it, it sends you the bill.” As a result, the growth of government and wasteful spending often seem inevitable. But House Republicans’...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2023 Negotiations between congressional Republicans and the White House over the concessions the GOP needs to hike the national debt-ceiling limit are approaching a crescendo. As the deadline nears, Americans are behaving in a way that seems to have bewildered observers of periodic partisan brawls over federal spending: They’re siding with the...

In the latest debt ceiling development as a potential default looms, President Joe Biden’s White House aides are busy, not negotiating, but engaging in an entitled — and rather ungrateful — complaint campaign against the mainstream media’s coverage of the president’s handling of the debt limit and his role in negotiations.

House Republicans are holding firm as they negotiate a deal with President Biden to raise the debt ceiling—a small miracle for the GOP—and one sticking point is work requirements in welfare.