America goes through significant transformations every 30 years. Here's why

Almost 60 years ago , LBJ pushed through groundbreaking changes to the way Americans live and work.

As Washington 's pendulum dangerously moved left, each president (with the exception of Ronald Reagan ) conspired to increase the federal role in our lives.

In 1994 , Gingrich led the GOP to take the House with a 54 -seat majority and the Senate with an 8 seat majority, promising to pass a balanced budget amendment, term limits, a line-item veto, and to cut federal spending.

Today , the federal deficit stands at $36 trillion .

If Congress does not pass a spending deal and President Biden does not sign it, government funding lapses at 12:01 a.m. Saturday .

The most likely scenario is for the Democrats to provide the Yes votes to rescue the spending in the bill.

The price to push through such a bill would be steep - such as securing a commitment from Trump to abandon DOGE and Musk 's promised future cuts to government.

Taiwan has received 38 M1A2T tanks from the United States , the first U.S. tanks for the island in 23 years .

This is the first batch of an expected 122 due to arrive over the next two years .

El Salvador has struck a $ 1.4bn loan deal with the IMF after agreeing to scale back its controversial bitcoin policies.