Dec. 20—House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy promised to enforce the conservatives’ demands if elected speaker in the 118th Congress.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 21, 2022 Democrats’ approach to the border crisis has been to minimize it—except when it burdens the cities they run. That explains the small mountain of money set aside for New York and other progressive sanctuaries in Congress’s omnibus spending bill. Awards will supposedly be determined through a competitive process, but Mr....

If passed, the burdens of this monstrous spending bill will stifle our economy and fray the fabric of our civil society for years to come.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 20, 2022 The 117th Congress has been the most spendthrift in history, and this week it plans to go out with one final bipartisan back-slapping hurrah—a 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that is the worst in history. This is no way to govern in a democracy, but here we are. Democrats failed in...

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – December 20, 2022 Congressional GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are at odds over the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill that was released around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. McConnell announced support for the bill in Senate floor remarks later Tuesday. “The bipartisan government-funding bill that Senators Shelby and Leahy have finished...

By: Dustin Walker & Mackenzie Eaglen – wsj.com – December 18, 2022 Will House Republicans protect the armed forces from losing another decade to fiscal disorder? To see this article in its entirety and subscribe to others like it, choose to read more. Source: The Military Pays for Beltway Budgetary Brinkmanship – WSJ

Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. …

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – December 13, 2022 I confess to being perplexed by the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried on Monday night. I’m not perplexed by the fact of it — as Rich Lowry and I discussed in recent episodes of The McCarthy Report, when billions of dollars in investor funds go poof, the Justice Department routinely files...

Regardless of FTX’s collapse and SBF’s role as its CEO, the interview requests continue to come in from outlets like the New York Times.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 30, 2022 Congress is marching toward a Dec. 16 expiration of government funding. Democrats want to stuff all 12 of Congress’s annual, overdue spending bills into a giant “omnibus” to finance government through September 2023. According to their media note-takers, the failure to pass an omnibus bill will result in one of...