By Natalia Castro Mandatory spending has gotten out of hand, with programs such as food stamps costing Americans billions, while their recipients rarely give back to the economic growth of the nation. Without entitlement reforms to reign in the growth of this program, it will […]

By ALG Staff The attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare has not been easy, despite Republicans running on the issue since 2010 and holding majorities in the House and Senate, plus the White House. This single issue gave the Republicans the House in 2010, the […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/342800-warrens-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-setting-dangerous?#_=_ Sen. Elizabeth Warren ‘s government-run-wild brain child is continuing its left-wing sprint into the Trump era, and only Congress can stop its usurpations. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency created by then-Harvard law professor Warren in the Obama years, effectively to […]

By Natalia Castro While Congress has fumbled the Obamacare repeal, one promise seems to be on the road to being kept within the House Budget Committee. Committee Chairwoman Diane Black (R-Tenn.) has released a budget plan for FY 2018 that details major cuts to so-called […]

By Natalia Castro The Obamacare replacement bill is dead, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has now presented a partial repeal bill in its stead, akin to the 2015 legislation vetoed by former President Barack Obama, H.R. 3762 . That bill phased out Medicaid expansion over a […]

By Richard McCarty For the past several years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been dumping millions of dollars of its members’ money into efforts across the country to hike the minimum wage to $15. The membership of SEIU includes many lower-wage workers, such as janitors, […]

By Printus LeBlanc On June 2, 2014 Seattle’s city council approved a raise in the minimum wage to a highest in the nation $15 an hour. Not one member of the council voted against it. Like most liberal progressives, the Seattle city council believed they could regulate prosperity. The […]

By Natalia Castro Illinois is breaking national records, but perhaps not for the best reasons; Illinois is the only state to have operated without a complete and balanced budget for over 700 days. For nearly two years, Illinois has been in fiscal freefall, and now […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/340869-comcast-tivo-clash-strong-ip-laws-prevent-pauses-in-innovation Comcast is not just a massive cable company; it is much  bigger than that . Comcast owns NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo and USA Network. It also owns Universal Pictures, Universal Parks and Resorts as well as the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers and […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/340230-us-south-korea-trade-issues-are-real-and-theyre-problematic Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in’s visit to the White House last week was an historic opportunity to reassert old ties and address new challenges facing our two nations. While the North Korean nuclear threat weighs heavily over the entire […]