Paul Winfree

1 month ago | epicforamerica.org | David Ditch |Matthew Dickerson |Paul Winfree |Brian Blase

Congress is weighing reforms to Medicaid with a goal of saving up to $880 billion as part of the budgetary reconciliation process. Left-leaning legislators have decried the potential Medicaid savings as “deep cuts” or “eviscerating” the program. In reality, Medicaid spending would still increase – just by a smaller amount. This is a perfect example of “Washington Math” which assumes that all types of government spending increase every year.

1 month ago | epicforamerica.org | David Ditch |Paul Winfree

The Biden-Harris administration was an unmitigated disaster for America’s fiscal health. Trillions of dollars in additional deficit spending helped to spur inflation and caused a spike in the cost of financing the debt. While most of this was done through ill-advised legislation, deliberate administrative actions cost more than $1 trillion. The most expensive and legally problematic of these actions was scheming to transfer student loan debt onto taxpayers.