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.

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Several times a year, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releases its “baseline” projections of future spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. In addition, the President and Congress ...

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

Social Security turns 90 today – but its retirement program is on course to be insolvent by age 97 – according to new estimates from the program’s Chief Actuary. Even if combined with the disability ...

The enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), new tariffs framework, and other changes have meaningfully changed the fiscal outlook since the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) January ...

With early marketplace premium estimates rolling out, there is increasing talk of extending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy enhancements scheduled to expire at the end of this calendar year. A ...

With Social Security’s 90 th birthday approaching, The New York Times (NYT) published an article this week alleging “6 myths about it that won’t go away." Unfortunately, the article does more to ...