Budget Battles
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Appropriations Watch 2019: Rev Up the Minibuses
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Trump’s 2019 Budget Underestimated New Debt by $2.3 Trillion, CBO Says
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Why Some Republicans Are Resisting Trump's Spending Cuts
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Mulvaney: Democratic Criticism of CHIP Clawbacks Is Pure Hypocrisy
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3 Big Risks the US Faces as Debt Levels Soar
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What the War on Terror Has Cost Since 9/11
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White House Will Ask for $11 Billion in Spending Cuts: Reports
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Judd Gregg’s Six-Point Plan for Fixing the Budget Process
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Deficit Owls Say You Shouldn’t Give a Hoot About $1 Trillion Budget Shortfall
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How Congress Cheats with Our Money — and How We Can Stop It
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April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress.
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When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
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With Recent Laws, Congress Has Added $540 Billion to the 2019 Deficit
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Why Trillion-Dollar Deficits Matter
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Paul Ryan's Fiscal Legacy: Lots of Red Ink
Newsletter
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Trump’s 2019 Budget Underestimated New Debt by $2.3 Trillion, CBO Says
Remember President Trump’s 2019 budget — that big document released in February and then immediately dismissed or ignored? Well, a new analysis released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional...
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Health Subsidies Will Cost More Than $1 Trillion by 2028: CBO
The Congressional Budget on Wednesday put out a new report looking on the health care market for Americans under age 65. Some key points: The number of insured and uninsured: On average this year,...
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Map of the Day: Beer Taxes in Every State
Taxes are the largest single part of the retail price of beer, accounting for roughly 40 percent of what consumers pay at the register, according to the sounds-awfully-fun-to-work-at Beer Institute...
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Why Companies Aren’t Investing Their Tax Cut Windfalls
We’re five months into the new business tax system in the U.S., and while companies are clearly pleased with the drop in the top rate to 21 percent, they’re not quite sure what to do with the cash...
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The US Is Running Short on More Than 200 Drugs
The U.S. is officially running short on 202 drugs, including some medical staples like epinephrine, morphine and saline solution. “The medications most vulnerable to running short have a few things...
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Chart of the Day: Could You Handle a Sudden $400 Expense?
More Americans say they are living comfortably or at least “doing okay” financially, according to the Federal Reserve’s Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017 . At the same time...
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Why Some Republicans Are Resisting Trump's Spending Cuts
Democrats have taken issue with President Trump’s proposed spending cuts, and some Republicans have serious concerns as well. “We never anticipated the kind of pushback we would have in our own...