Tag: spending package

Venal Congressional Leaders Slip One Past the Goalie

While most Americans were busy preparing for holidays with family and friends, the retiring leaders of the Senate and House spent their final days before Christmas wrangling through Congress the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. With the clock ticking on a government shutdown, the Democratic Party majorities in each chamber used the holidays and…


Japan Unleashes Record Stimulus Package, Bucking Global Tapering Trend

TOKYO—Japan unveiled a record $490 billion spending package on Friday to cushion the economic blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking a global trend towards withdrawing crisis-mode stimulus measures and adding strains to its already tattered finances. Spending has ballooned due to an array of payouts including those criticized for being unrelated to the pandemic, such…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Nov. 18)

The House has started debate on President Joe Biden’s social spending package – as the president showcases his newly signed infrastructure deal and what it means for electric vehicles. The battle over vaccine mandates rages on. New Hampshire lawmakers pass a measure to ban them altogether. And hundreds of workers in Los Angeles face unpaid…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Oct. 21)

President Joe Biden and Democrats are racing to seal an agreement on Biden’s spending package. What’s still on the table? And what’s likely to be cut? Arizona’s governor is threatening legal action against Tuscon’s vaccine mandate. That’s while over 10,000 Air Force personnel are set to miss the vaccine deadline. Ahead of Virginia’s gubernatorial election,…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Oct. 4)

Democrats are giving themselves another month to reach a deal on President Joe Biden’s social spending package. This, after the House delayed a vote on the smaller package twice last week. What’s the holdup? And why is a moderate concerned about the deadlock? No chance of a vaccine mandate for students in West Virginia, says…


Sinema Opposes $3.5 Trillion Price Tag for Spending Bill

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) indicated on Wednesday that she does not support the $3.5 trillion price tag for a spending bill backed by most Senate Democrats. In a statement, Sinema that she supports “many of the goals in this proposal.” However, she added, “While I will support beginning this process, I do not support a bill…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (March 23)

The public honors the lives of the 10 Colorado shooting victims and President Biden speaks on the horrific attack, the mayor of a small Arizona town says Border Patrol is sending illegal migrants to his town, and the Biden administration now proposes another trillion dollar spending package.


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (March 4)

Democrats are pushing a massive spending package through the senate without Republicans. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) say they will get creative to block what some are calling the “bloated” virus relief bill. A new report from the Investigator General at the Transportation Department. It alleges former Secretary Elaine Chao acted unethically. But will…


Biden Calls on Trump to Sign COVID-19 Relief Bill Amid Battle Over Direct Payments

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called on President Donald Trump to sign the $2.3 trillion spending package, which would provide $600 stimulus checks to most Americans. The funding bill, which passed both houses of Congress in a bipartisan fashion, has been the center of attention in recent days after Trump urged lawmakers to increase the…


Senator Rand Paul: Direct Payments to Employed Americans is a Socialist Idea

Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he disagrees with giving large direct payment checks to employed Americans because it is furthering socialist ideas and that instead, the payments should only go to those who are unemployed. “It’s a really foolish, airheaded, left-wing socialist idea to pass out free money to people, so I part ways…