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June 16, 2025

US budget

Opinion

HILL: “I Will Never Compromise!”

May 22, 2019 Frank Hill

Candidates on the campaign trail routinely make this bold proclamation: “I will never compromise!” Have they ever heard about The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention of 1787? The Missouri Compromise? The FDR/Robert Doughton compromise […]

Opinion

HILL: Budget Discipline Procrastination Already Has Had Its Consequences

May 15, 2019 Frank Hill

In 1993, when Republican House Budget Committee staffers were searching for options to include in the GOP budget alternative “Cutting Spending First”, we opened a book called “CBO Spending and Revenue Options” to find proposals […]

Opinion

HOLDING: Debt Is Out-of-Control

March 20, 2019 George Holding

Decades of irresponsible, out-of-control government spending has left the United States drowning in an unprecedented level of debt. Last month, our national debt topped $22 trillion. Divided up, that comes to about $400,000 per taxpayer. […]

News

Trump offers budget with funds for border wall, Space Force

March 9, 2019 admin

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House […]

News

North Carolina revenues up again at halfway point

January 25, 2019 Jones & Blount

RALEIGH — North Carolina tax collections keep outpacing expectations. The top economist on the General Assembly’s nonpartisan staff, Barry Boardman, says state revenues for the first half of the fiscal year through December are $189 […]

Opinion

TUCKER: Where’s The Backbone?

January 24, 2019 Garland S. Tucker III

Just two months after last November’s midterm elections, Democratic presidential hopefuls are already lining up. And the new darling of the left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is blithely explaining her party’s outright embrace of old-fashioned socialism with […]

Article

Legislature votes to override Gov. Cooper’s budget veto

June 13, 2018 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — In a battle of dueling plans and priorities, the GOP-led N.C. House and Senate finalized short session budget adjustments over the objections of Gov. Roy Cooper and his party. Last Thursday, the Senate […]

Madeline Gray—North State Journal
Article

Lawmakers plan to override Cooper’s budget veto on Thursday

June 7, 2018 North State Journal Staff

Raleigh, N.C.  – Lawmakers say they will override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the Republican-led state legislature’s budget adjustment, which provided raises to teachers, state troopers and other state employees. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) […]

Article

Congress to vote Thursday on spending deal

February 8, 2018 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH – The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are expected to vote on a proposed budget deal on Thursday that would avert another government shutdown, but that has angered fiscal conservatives who complain it would lead to […]

News

U.S. Senate backs military pay increase and more money for training and readiness

September 20, 2017 North State Journal Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate passed its version of a $700 billion defense policy bill on Monday, backing President Donald Trump’s call for a bigger, stronger military. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 89-8 for the […]

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