104°F
weather icon Clear
EDITORIAL: Biden’s sea of red ink

The CBO said that it expects this year’s federal deficit to hit $2 trillion, almost $400 billion higher than the original estimate it released — and Biden boasted about — earlier.

Regulatory reform

Lawmakers at all levels have delegated a great deal of their authority to an unelected bureaucracy. After legislators in Washington, D.C., or Carson City pass the laws, it is up to an army of career functionaries in the executive branch to actually write the rules and regulations required by the statutes.

A real BLM ‘stimulus’ proposal

The Interior Department is directing more than $300 million in federal “economic stimulus” money to the Bureau of Land Management to update its facilities, roads and trails and jump-start renewable energy projects across the country, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who performed like a trained seal here Saturday.