Columns

December 1, 2025

Congressman Tom McClintock penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner discussing freedom and socialism and the impact of both on government policies.

Via the Washington Examiner:

Government is Still the Problem
By Congressman Tom McClintock

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicCalifornia

Sorry, Not Sorry for Immigration Enforcement

August 25, 2025

Columns

The Democrats are outraged that the largest illegal mass migration in history – that they unleashed – must now be followed by the largest repatriation in history.

Issues:Illegal Immigration - Border Crisis

The Big, Beautiful Bill

July 16, 2025

Columns

The Big, Beautiful Bill is now the law, so it’s no longer a theoretical discussion about what the bill might do. We’re about to find out what it will do.

Issues:Budget CommitteeFiscal and Economic

Yosemite Valley With No Reservations

June 3, 2025

Columns

The 750,000-acre national park can welcome many more visitors than it does today without restricting access. All that is missing is a visitor-friendly attitude by Yosemite Park management and a willingness to be a good neighbor to the gateway communities and businesses that depend on tourism.

Issues:Local IssuesCalifornia

Yosemite Belongs to the People

March 6, 2025

Columns

What is the actual number of layoffs at Yosemite National Park that will bring this beautiful Valley to rack and ruin? Ten. Ten probationary employees. Ten out of nearly 500 full-time winter employees. Twenty-five if you include early retirements. And no fire fighters.

Issues:Local IssuesCalifornia

Musk and Democracy

February 18, 2025

Columns

Hell hath no fury like the deep state scorned. That’s become obvious from the over-the-top hysterics directed against Elon Musk as he turns over bureaucratic rocks and shines a light on what has been going on beneath them.

Issues:ConstitutionFiscal and Economic

Bad Policy Served as Kindling for California’s Wildfires

January 13, 2025

Columns

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discussing the California Wildfires.

Issues:Forest FireCalifornia

Restoring Reconciliation

December 26, 2024

Columns

The federal government can’t raise or spend a single dollar unless Congress says it can. Fiscal responsibility rests with lawmakers—and can’t be dodged, or DOGEd. Fifty years ago Congress developed a process specifically designed to bring spending in line with revenues: budget reconciliation. Unfortunately, it has rarely been used for its intended purpose. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Rep. McClintock discusses restoring the budget reconciliation process.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Just Say No to Grants

December 13, 2024

Columns

In the attached column, Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) examines the cost and impact of federal grants on the national economy. Between 2016 and 2020, federal grant spending ballooned from $675 billion to $972 billion. Budget writers and appropriators should look with extreme skepticism on every grant that awards money without results or that robs taxpayers in one community to pay for projects in another.

Issues:Fiscal and Economic

Just Say No to Subsidies

December 5, 2024

Columns

In the attached column Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) discusses the cost and reach of subsides and the impact of subsidies on the national economy. Insurance, electric cars, mass transit, sugar, milk, solar panels, airline tickets, housing, tuition, health care, film production, green energy – it is hard to find a sector of the economy that isn’t rife with subsidies. Subsidies not only cost hundreds of billions of dollars and inflate the prices of the things being subsidized, but they also misallocate resources and misdirect consumer decisions.