Last year was nothing less than eventful in Washington. In 2022, policymakers enacted several significant policy changes in areas from green energy subsidies and prescription drug savings to new veterans benefits and funding the government for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among other priorities. Meanwhile, inflation was at a 40-year high pace as economic growth
Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement in response to Congressional appropriators filing a 4,155 page, $1.85 trillion omnibus to fund the government shortly after 1:30 AM this morning. “More than two months into FY2023 and in the dark hours of the early morning, hoping no one would notice, Congressional appropriators unveiled their
Photo: Sen. David Gowan, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, prepares for a hearing at the Arizona Senate in Phoenix Members of the Arizona Education Association gathered Tuesday at the state Capitol to again ask lawmakers to funnel a bigger chunk of the state’s $5 billion budget surplus into public schools. Marisol Garcia, president-elect of the
The president now brags that he cut the deficit! “We’re on track,” he says, to have “the biggest decline in a single year ever in American history.” It’s actually true. But utterly deceitful. President Joe Biden’s deficit will be down from last year, but that’s only because he spent such gargantuan amounts then. For once,
From Slide Rock to Lost Dutchman to Catalina, Arizona’s state parks are second to none! Camping, hiking, boating, horseback riding — there’s no shortage of ways to enjoy the great outdoors at Arizona’s many state parks. But the role our parks play goes well beyond mountain trails and pristine lakes. According to recently released numbers,
It has been several decades since Americans dealt with the specter of inflation. However, according to several economic benchmarks and commonsense, inflation is oozing into the American economy like poison ivy into an open wound. The last time the U.S. economy was overrun with inflation occurred during the dark days of the late 1970s. For
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