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Mike Johnson
May 22, 2025

House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night session

With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that’s central
As Americans Save More, Piggy Banks Gain Popularity
December 13, 2024

8 Easy Ways to Save Money This Year

It’s time to get a handle on our finances, and the new year is the perfect time to start. If
January 8, 2022

California governor asks for $2.7 billion to battle pandemic

California had more than 10,100 people hospitalized on Friday, or about half of the peak reached during last winter’s surge.
October 9, 2021

McConnell seeks to undermine Biden in debt standoff

Mitch O'Connell is no longer the majority leader but he's still wielding his power at the expense of the US…
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February 16, 2018

Report: Understaffed federal prisons use nurses and cooks as guards

According to reports, federal prisons are so short on guards that they are drawing on civilian staff like nurses, cooks,…
March 17, 2017

Meals on Wheels in jeopardy funding slash in new Trump budget

President Trump recently unfurled his budget proposal for 2018, which could slash programs for older Americans, such as the Meals…
October 1, 2015

President Obama signs stopgap spending bill that averts shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a short-term spending bill that averts a government shutdown and gives Congress…
April 2, 2014

Why the Republicans are still pushing for Paul Ryan's budget

ANALYSIS - The budget put together by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) the head of the House Budget Committee and former…
February 15, 2014

President Obama seeks $1 billion to fight climate change

MSNBC - President Obama announced on Friday that he wants Congress to authorize $1 billion in new spending on the…
December 20, 2013

President Obama: 2014 can be a 'breakthrough year' for America

WASHINGTON (AP) - Praising Congress for a recent, relatively modest budget compromise, the president said, 'It's probably too early to…
December 18, 2013

Congress passes bipartisan budget agreement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent President Barack Obama a modest, bipartisan budget pact designed to avert another U.S. government…
December 12, 2013

President Obama's shift from compromise to confrontation is paying dividends

ANALYSIS - President Obama decided to embrace confrontation in the last months of 2013, and it has worked...
December 4, 2013

Detroit bankruptcy decision puts pensions at risk

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has given Detroit the green light to cut pensions as a way out of the…
November 27, 2013

How to budget to avoid the post-holiday spending blues

theGRIO REPORT - With less than a month to go before Christmas consumers are being bombarded with advertisements and promotions...
November 18, 2013

The silver lining of the Obamacare meltdown

MSNBC - Having watched their party descend into chaos over the government shutdown, Republicans aren’t likely to let the fiscal…
October 17, 2013

Obama: Focus on budget, immigration, farm bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says now that the shutdown is over, leaders in Washington should focus on a…
October 16, 2013

John Boehner admits ‘we just didn’t win’ budget fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress raced Wednesday to approve a bipartisan deal to avert a U.S. default and reopen the federal…
October 9, 2013

Obama plans to talk to GOP again on shutdown, debt

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the…
October 6, 2013

Weekend in Washington yields little on shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday he sees no way out of the government shutdown unless President…
September 30, 2013

Senate rejects House conditions on spending bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led Senate has rejected conditions that House Republicans attached to a temporary spending bill needed to…