Image Credit: Oliver Contreras | White House The Center Square [By Casey Harper] – President Joe Biden’s persistent push for billions of dollars in taxpayer funding toward progressive ideology on gender and race at home and abroad is under fire. Since Biden took office, the federal government has doled out huge sums to prop up […]
Image Credit: Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning. Three of the nine members of the Tennessee Congressional Delegation voted in favor of the budget, the sole Democrat Steve Cohen (D-TN 9th District) and two Republicans. Of the two Republicans […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee schools saw an 18.4% increase in inflation-adjusted per student funding between 2002 and 2020, according to a new report. Spending on employee benefits increased by 56.5% over the same period, according to Reason Foundation’s Education Spending Across 50 States report. Tennessee spent $1,992 per […]
Image Credit: Gov. Bill Lee / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – After several years of rapidly increasing spending and tax collections, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proposed a budget that would spend nearly $10 billion less next year. That includes $52.6 billion in spending with $25.4 billion from the state and $19.8 […]
Donald Trump is magic. You have to give him that. He can drive his enemies insane, inspire enormous (and irrational) loyalty in his fans, and scare the pants off of people who need his approval. He is not a politician; he is a force of Nature. While American pundits and politicians have been driven insane […]
The University of Virginia has spent around $2 million defending against lawsuits alleging that it refused religious exemptions to its vaccine mandates arbitrarily and capriciously. The University didn’t deny every application for exemptions–just almost everyone. It decided whether a person’s religious beliefs qualified based on which church you attended. Your own beliefs didn’t matter. #FromTheTJCBlog […]
Billionaire George Soros has donated $3M to at least five left-wing groups in Texas recently. He’s up to his usual behavior, using his vast fortune to put socialists and other progressives in office. He is now 93-years-old. Waiting in the wings is his son, Alex, who is taking over his philanthropy empire. Soros uses a […]
Four companies hired with maximum contracts totaling $56M. Image: Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Butch Eley, second from left, unveiling the first four toll lane projects proposed by the state at a December 2023 press conference. Image Credit: John Partipilo By Sam Stockard [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – The Tennessee Department of Transportation hired […]
House Freedom Caucus members are warning fellow Republicans not to make any “shady side deals” with any Democrats as spending talks resume ahead of a Jan. 19 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. The ultra-conservative caucus released a statement Friday urging the House GOP to reduce spending to tackle the nation’s massive debt. “America […]
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has suspended television campaign ad spending just before primary voting actually begins, though he claims to still be in the race. After peaking at around 8 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls in late September, he’s fallen since, losing about half of that support and averaging around 4 […]
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