Magazine executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
On this week’s episode, Antle examines whether the Republican Party and the conservative movement have moved away from balancing liberty and virtue.
“The size of government domestically does not tend to shrink when we get Republican presidents,” Antle said. “They are successful at cutting taxes — they’re rarely successful at cutting spending.”
With Vice President JD Vance possibly taking the leading role in the future of the Republican Party, Antle raises the question of whether a new generation of leadership could restore a stronger focus on limited government. However, the challenge isn’t just inside the White House — congressional Republicans have also struggled to push reforms leading to a smaller deficit.
“Only a small faction of conservatives, especially in the House, are really dedicated to things like spending cuts, balanced budgets, entitlement reform, and we’re seeing all this unfold at a time where Social Security is facing an insolvency crisis,” Antle said. “So there will, at some point, need to be a solution to real problems involving entitlements and not just ideological abstractions.”
Next in the show, Antle speaks with Jay Caruso about how an AWOL Congress made hundreds of lawsuits possible against President Donald Trump.
“If Congress started taking a more direct role in what it’s supposed to do in terms of writing these laws, then you wouldn’t have to go to the courts so much,” Caruso said.
Caruso claims that Congress’s failure to legislate and assert its authority creates a cycle, leaving the Supreme Court to resolve disputes over presidential power, giving the judicial branch far more power in the originally proposed checks and balances. He warned the pattern is unlikely to break just because candidates promise restraint.
“As far as we’ve heard so far in the last 15 years, every presidential candidate has said they’re going to dial it back,” Caruso said. “Then they just ramp it up.”
Finally, Antle sits down with David Mark, the managing editor for the Washington Examiner magazine, to discuss how the rising Trump administration pressure on Cuba is dividing Hill Democrats.
“Cuba has been seen as kind of a natural follow-on to the Venezuelan operation since Nicolas Maduro was deposed,” Mark said. “After all, it’s a long-standing America opponent, if not enemy, depending how you define it. So it really represents a long-standing split among Democrats toward Cuba.”
While some Democrats have even visited Cuba, Mark noted that the more sympathetic view of the island is largely associated with the progressive caucus — not the party as a whole.
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“Not all Democrats feel that way, though,” Mark said. “Sure, that is mostly a progressive caucus type view.”
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