Skip to main content

National Debt Will Hit $20 Trillion After Next President Is Sworn In - Planned Parenthood Spends Over $38 Million to Elect Democrats

The Daily Signal
Nov. 4, 2016

National Debt Will Hit $20 Trillion After Next President Is Sworn In - Planned Parenthood Spends Over $38 Million to Elect Democrats
Good morning from Washington, where the next president will inherit a national debt topping $20 trillion. Neither major candidate has a plan, one budget expert tells Fred Lucas. Democrats' campaigns are boosted by donations linked to Planned Parenthood, which wants more taxpayer money, Leah Jessen reports. In Kansas, conservatives hope to reform the state's highest court. Josh Siegel has details. What do Belgian deaths by euthanasia mean for America? Read the latest from Kelsey Harkness. Plus: Daren Bakst on the tyranny of soda taxes.
News

National Debt Will Top $20 Trillion After Next President Is Sworn In


On March 16, the new president and Congress will have to reach an agreement on the debt limit—which will likely be $20.1 trillion.
Read More
News

Why Kansas Conservatives Are Pushing Voters to Reshape the State's Highest Court


"The Republican base in Kansas is not comfortable with a lot of decisions the court makes," says Clayton Barker of the state Republican Party. Gov. Sam Brownback, pictured above, has been critical of the court, too.
Read More
News

Euthanasia Deaths Hit Record High in Belgium. Why That Matters for the US.


In 2015, a total of 2,022 Belgians were legally euthanized. In 2002, the first year the practice was legal, 24 people died by euthanasia.
Read More
News

Planned Parenthood Arms Spend Over $38 Million to Elect Democrats


"Ultimately, Planned Parenthood itself is bringing in well over half a billion dollars a year from taxpayers and they want to make sure that the politicians stay in office who will keep that money coming," says Casey Mattox of Alliance Defending Freedom.
Read More
Commentary

How Soda Taxes Crush Freedom and Enrich Government


Soda taxes are regressive in nature and hurt the poor more than anyone else.
Read More
News

The Health Care Plan That Promises to Protect Your Religious Beliefs


With open enrollment for Obamacare now open, one health care organization is encouraging people to purchase insurance coverage that respects their conscience.
Read More
The Daily Signal
The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation.
Find us on Facebook Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Twitter
The Daily Signal
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(800) 546-2843

Donate to The Daily Signal

-

Popular posts from this blog

Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory

Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday.  Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans
Post a Comment
Read more

Daily on Defense: New Russian nuclear threat, Stoltenberg calls on Congress to pass Ukraine aid, NATO defense spending soars, Trump repeats threat to NATO laggards

Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT TURNER'S CRYPTIC WARNING: The news of a dire new threat broke at 11:30 a.m. with a cryptic news release blasted out by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH). "Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat," the two-sentence release began. "I am requesting that President Biden declassify all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat." And with that, the race was on to find out what "serious national security threat" he was talking about. At the White House, national security adviser Jake Sullivan was tight-lipped while expressing consternat
Post a Comment
Read more

Daily on Defense: Zelensky cites new phase of war, poll shows strong support for Ukraine, Truce ends in Gaza, Tuberville targets woke officers

Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT ZELENSKY: 'WE DID NOT ACHIEVE THE DESIRED RESULTS': I n a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, conducted Thursday in the war-ravaged northeastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a sobering assessment of the shortcomings of Ukraine's summer counteroffensive against Russian forces, while remaining resolute about the need to keep fighting. "We wanted faster results. From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results. And this is a fact," Zelensky said. "We are losing people, I'm not satisfied. We didn't get all the weapons we
Post a Comment
Read more