Category: Government Spending

Act Now: Stop Pelosi from Bankrupting America!

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Statement on Status of Spending Deal Negotiations

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Club for Growth has strong concerns over details of a plan to increase federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and suspend the debt limit through the 2020 elections. A deal is not final, but apparently the spending levels and debt limit provisions of the plan are agreed upon by the negotiators, including Treasury […]

Club for Growth Warns Leadership Against Busting Spending Caps

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The Club for Growth announced the new “Big Spender Wall” highlighting Members of Congress who support a federal discretionary spending deal that exceeds caps set in the 2011 Budget Control Act. This follows the release of the “Fiscal Conservative Wall of Fame” on May 10. Both the “Big Spender Wall” and the “Fiscal Conservative Wall […]

Tell Congress: Hold to the Caps!

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Federal spending is out of control and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is leading the way on fiscal responsibility and pushing Congress to #HoldToTheCaps. Find out if your elected officials are on the Club for Growth’s “Fiscal Responsibility Wall of Fame” here. 

Club for Growth & Coalition of Conservative Groups Tell Congress Not to Break Spending Caps

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The Club for Growth, along with FreedomWorks and 11 other major conservative organizations, co-signed a letter to Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) urging them not to exceed spending limits set in the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) in a potential deal to increase discretionary spending. Club for Growth President […]

Oppose Ex-Im, It Could Be Financing Deadly Boeing Jets

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For over 1,000 days, the Export-Import Bank has been prohibited from financing loans in excess of $10 million because it has been operating without a quorum on the Board of Directors. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the GOP Senate Majority should be commended for resisting voting on nominations to Ex-Im Board of Directors.  Had […]

KEY VOTE ALERT – “NO” ON GREEN NEW DEAL, S.J. RES 8

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The Club for Growth opposes the Green New Deal, S.J. Res 8 and urges all Senators to vote NO on it.  A vote is expected this week in the Senate.  The results of this vote will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2019 congressional scorecard. The scorecard will count any Senators voting “present” […]

Key Vote Alert – “NO” ON CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, H.J. RES 31

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KEY VOTE ALERT “NO” on Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.J. Res 31 The Club for Growth opposes the Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.J. Res. 31 and urges all Senators and Representatives to vote NO on it.  A vote is expected this afternoon in the Senate and this evening in the House.  The results of this vote will […]

AOC’s Green New Deal Is Really the New Green Unemployment Deal

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Today, Club for Growth President David McIntosh issued the following statement after Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled their plans for a “Green New Deal:” “The Green New Deal is nothing more than the latest job-killing, socialist wish list from the radical left obsessed with climate change, Medicare-For-All, free college, and a total […]

The shutdown makes it clearer than ever — now is the time to privatize TSA

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In an op-ed in The Washington Examiner, McIntosh explained that the shutdown makes it clearer than ever — now is the time to privatize TSA. In the piece he writes: “The shutdown vividly demonstrates the need to fully privatize the Transportation Security Administration. Now there is the potential for a bipartisan consensus about doing just […]