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Deposit backlash

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The road to expanding the deposit safety net is starting to get bumpy. The House Freedom Caucus — the conservative bloc that nearly derailed Kevin McCarthy’s speakership — is coming out swinging against a blanket backstop of uninsured bank deposits... To read more, click here.

Virginia Rep. calls to shrink fed. bureaucracy and administrative state in midst of financial crisis

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Virginia GOP Congressman Ben Cline says that in order for the country to get back on track in terms of finances, the federal bureaucracy needs to shrink and power must go back to the people. "We're going to keep working to make sure that we shrink the bureaucracy and the administrative state by balancing the budget," Cline said on the Tuesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise"…

Cline, Campbell Offer Civics Lessons At RCHS

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Rockbridge County High School government students were given the opportunity to hear first-hand accounts of how bills become laws at both the state and federal levels when U.S. Rep. Ben Cline and Del. Ellen Campbell visited students during their government class periods.The students also were able to ask the representatives... To read more click here.

House Republicans could force a vote on Biden's budget: 'Every Democrat will be put on the record'

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Severl House Republicans are pushing for a chamber-wide vote on President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, a move that would force Democrats to go on the record about where they stand on the progressive plan he laid out this week. Biden released his plan on Thursday, and some projections say it would result in almost $5 trillion in tax hikes on corporations and wealthy…

Republicans prepare their OWN budget to combat Biden's 'out-of-control spending': GOP to lay out plan in 'weeks' and go to war with President's 'reckless' proposals with trillions in taxes that will hit families

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'In the coming weeks, House Republicans will put forward a budget that actually works toward getting our fiscal house in order by reining in out-of-control spending and putting us on a path to balance,' the leader of the Republican Study Committee's Budget and Spending Task Force told Fox News... Republican Congressman Ben Cline of Virginia said Thursday the GOP will release their…

White House mum on declassifying COVID report after unanimous House approval

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WASHINGTON — Americans are one step closer to knowing what the US government knows about the origins of COVID-19 — if President Biden will let them. The House on Friday unanimously passed its version of a Senate-approved bill that would force the White House to declassify intelligence reports about the origins of the global pandemic and its ties to a…

Rep. Cline to Newsmax: GOP Will Restore Fiscal Order

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Rep. Ben Cline R-Va., in an interview with Newsmax, vowed that Republicans will restore fiscal order in the U.S. Cline, a member of the House Budget Committee, made his comments on Friday's "Wake Up America." President Joe Biden's budget plan is "being as well received in the House of Representatives as [Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg was in East Palestine, Ohio,…