By Peter Hong What happens when a reckless, unaccountable arm of the administrative state collides head-on with a Congressional committee demanding answers for constituents who have been harassed, extorted, or ignored for more than five years? In the case of yesterday’s appearance by Consumer Financial […]

By Peter Hong Are you concerned with your privacy on the Internet? Of course, you are.  We all are. Now, how much do you trust the government to protect your privacy? Depending on how you answered the second question, Congressional Democrats might have a bridge […]

By Natalia Castro Congress has taken the lead in using the Congressional Review Act to remove some of the midnight regulations that the Obama Administration has burdened the American people with. Now as they push this legislation to the President, it is important the two […]

By Robert Romano The Republican strategy on tax and health care reform was built on a house of cards that has now collapsed. The problem was not Republican moderates or the conservative House Freedom Caucus per se — there did not appear to be the votes in […]

By Robert Romano One of central planks President Donald Trump ran on in 2016 was get rid of economically harmful, job-killing regulations. The process appears straightforward enough. Whatever can be done by executive action can be undone by executive action. If regulations were initiated via the regulatory […]

By Natalia Castro As high school seniors make their decision of which college to go to next fall, Congress has been working on its Obamacare decision; but what the American people might be missing, is that these two issues are extremely closely related. As student […]

By Natalia Castro Across the country, states are experiencing a pension crisis that could leave them defaulting on millions of dollars in retirement benefits. Fiscal irresponsibility enabled by the federal government has allowed pensions to go underfunded by anywhere from $1.5 trillion to $5 trillion dollars , now individual states […]

By Peter Hong Remember the cool kids in school: the jock or cheerleader — with rich parents to boot? They had everything handed to them: awards, popularity, status. They hung out together at all the right parties and in all the right cliques, strengthening their […]

By Natalia Castro Government officials take an oath of office to protect the securities of the American people, contractors do not. Yet for some of our most sensitive tax records and information, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has employed third party contractors to pursue investigations; […]

By Robert Romano In 2012, 4.4 million seniors were enrolled in the Medicaid program, primarily for long-term nursing home or home and community care, according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission . Almost twice that number were on some form of long-term care — 8.3 million according to the Center for Disease Control — about comprising almost 20 percent of the 41.9 million […]