by Bill Peacock | Oct 31, 2025 | Research
Texans’ Debt Burden Will Soon Get Much Larger Unless We Show Up at the Polls This article was originally published at “Excellent Though” HERE. It is being republished with permission of the author. According to the Texas Bond Review Board, Texans...
by TFR Staff | Oct 28, 2025 | Federal
The United States national debt has officially passed $38 trillion. According to the Treasury Department, this threshold was crossed in recent weeks, with the debt accumulating an additional $1 trillion at the fastest pace outside of the COVID-19 pandemic period.1...
by TFR Staff | Aug 14, 2025 | Federal
$37 trillion. Written another way $37,000,000,000,000. The Treasury Department confirmed this week that the national debt has officially surpassed $37 trillion. Even with record income from Trump’s tariffs, July’s deficit rose 20% year over year with interest and...
by TFR Staff | May 30, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Texe Lege
Now It’s Up to the Governor to Stop It Just one day after narrowly passing the Texas House on second reading, Senate Bill 646—an expensive, government-growing student loan forgiveness program—cleared its final hurdle in the chamber with even more Republican...
by TFR Staff | May 29, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Texe Lege
On May 27th—the final day for bills to pass on second reading in the Texas House—fifteen Republican lawmakers broke with conservative principles and sided with Democrats to pass Senate Bill 646 by State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), a bloated and misguided expansion of...
