Posts by Tea Party Patriots
Tea Party Patriots Thank Sen. Portman for Standing Up to the Left’s Campaign to Force the Senate to Confirm a Liberal Judge to the Supreme Court
ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today following Senator Portman’s meeting with Merrick Garland. “Senator Portman has earned the gratitude of grassroots activists for standing up to President Obama and his allies’ relentless campaign to force the Senate to confirm Merrick Garland, a liberal…
Read MoreWatchdog releases annual report detailing wasteful government spending
Government watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual “Pig Book,” detailing programs and earmarks that fall under six types of criteria, including spending that is not specifically authorized and spending that is not the subject of congressional hearings. WWMT.com has the details: The Appalachian Regional Commission got $51 million, even though the highway and…
Read MoreColumnist: ‘Work should be rewarded, not punished’
A writer and activist lobbying for right-to-work laws in Michigan criticized the status quo at the IRS and is pushing for a simpler tax code – one that doesn’t bog down hardworking American taxpayers. The Detroit News has the commentary: It’s a complex and corrupt system, now consisting of thousands of pages of instructions and…
Read MoreIRS commissioner brushes off illegal immigrants’ use of fraudulent SSN’s to file returns, says ‘it’s not the normal identity-theft situation’
The IRS is issuing refunds to illegal immigrants who have apparently obtained jobs using social security numbers that aren’t their own, revealed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen after confronted by Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) Tuesday during a session of the Senate Finance Committee. The Washington Examiner has the details: “What we learned is that … the…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Thank Sen. Ayotte for Working to Prevent a Liberal Majority on the Supreme Court
ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today after Senator Ayotte met with Merrick Garland. “In the face of a fundamentally dishonest campaign by President Obama and Democrats to falsely portray liberal judge Merrick Garland as a ‘moderate,’ Senator Ayotte has stood by grassroots activists and…
Read MoreHeads up: These 8 Obamacare co-ops will probably fail this year
The health-insurance co-ops created under Obamacare are falling like dominoes, with eight of the remaining 11 likely to collapse within the year, according to analysis from an investigative reporter. The Daily Caller has the scoop: Twelve of the original 23 federally financed co-ops have already collapsed. The co-op program was funded with $2.5 billion in…
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