From September 2024 through August 2025, the federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion based on estimates from the ...

Medicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this ...

As Congress considers the possibility of a second reconciliation bill, lawmakers should ensure it reduces deficits rather ...

Fiscal Year 2025 will end on September 30, and none of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government have been signed into law.

The United States spends more on health care than any other developed country, and these costs continue to grow – particularly at the federal level. Rising Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health ...

The appropriations process for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 has begun, with action in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The discretionary spending caps that were put in place by the Fiscal ...

Media CoverageSeniors get a tax break in Trump’s megabill, but many will still pay taxes on Social Security benefits. Here’s the real deal Read more ...

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The White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) expects much more robust growth, but also a similar pattern. CEA expects ...

The national debt is on course to reach a record share of the economy under the next presidential administration, due in part to policies approved by Presidents Trump and Biden during their time in ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden – the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in the 2020 election – has put forward a variety of tax proposals. Biden would raise the corporate tax rate from 21 ...