Editor's Note: We thought it appropriate to re-post this column written by U.S. Senator Jon Ky on February 1, 2010.

By U.S. Senator Jon Kyl

The President recently announced he would freeze certain types of federal spending in an effort to save approximately $250 billion over the next 10 years. Over that period, deficits are projected to accumulate to $9 trillion. So, with this spending freeze in place, we will only spend $8.75 trillion that we don't have.

Adding $9 trillion more in debt isn't sustainable, and neither is adding $8.75 billion.

While the President likes to say that he inherited the nations debt from his predecessor, the fact is, from the day President Obama took office until the last day of fiscal year 2010, the debt held by the public will grow by $2.3 trillion, according to the White Houses Office of Management and Budget.   more...
“The devastation caused by the recent Central Texas flooding is a serious crisis that requires immediate legislative action from lawmakers from both parties. While families are still burying loved ones and communities are struggling to recover, Texas Democrats have abandoned their responsibilities, leaving the Texas House of Representatives without a quorum nor the ability to take steps to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

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The Minnesota Star Tribune reports: “ICE wants to deport Wisconsin driver charged with being drunk, causing crash that killed 2 Minnesota teens.”

That “Wisconsin driver” is an illegal immigrant from Honduras who drove drunk, on a revoked license and with open booze containers, down the wrong way of the highway, killing two innocent teenagers from Minnesota — and yes, the Trump Administration “wants to deport” her.

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Sen. Rick Scott
February 5, 2025

Under the leadership of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, the United States’ central bank has repeatedly failed its objective to promote a strong American economy with stable prices and maximum employment that provide financial opportunity for American families. These failures, which Chair Powell has taken zero accountability for, have caused catastrophic damage to the livelihoods of millions of American families and businesses, and demand an immediate change in leadership.

Working together with former President Biden, Chair Powell has led a Federal Reserve that has failed to act independently in the best interests of the American people, and instead chosen policies to appease Washington elites, Wall Street and left-leaning international organizations. His failed policies have devastated hardworking families and retirees with skyrocketing inflation, which he insisted for months was just "transitory," fueled by the Biden administration’s reckless spending that added over $8 trillion to the national debt in four years.

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Sen. Rick Scott
January 30, 2025

I have noticed a shocking trend in my conversations with families in my state and across the nation. For the past year, at almost every event I attended and when running into folks at restaurants, outside my offices and around the state, I asked a simple question, “Do you trust that the FBI and the federal government are doing the right thing, acting in your best interests, and giving you useful information?”

Nearly every person said “NO!” I would bet I asked this question to more than 1,000 people over the past year—Republicans, Democrats, independents—and overwhelmingly they said they don’t trust the FBI and our federal government.

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By: Christopher Bedford

Tuesday’s plea deal is the equivalent of taking a watering can to a house fire and calling yourself a firefighter.

To hear President Joe Biden’s supporters tell it, Hunter Biden was finally held accountable Tuesday, and the long national nightmare of him facing any scrutiny at all can finally end.

This accountability for the president’s son, however, was little more than a chiding for offenses that have virtually nothing to do with the serious allegations the Department of Justice should actually be pursuing — like giving a speeding ticket to “the getaway driver after a bank robbery,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley remarked.

Over the past two weeks alone, congressional Republicans have revealed a paid, “highly credible” FBI informant’s report that $10 million was paid in bribes to Hunter and his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, by Ukrainian oligarch and Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky.

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