Focusing on the concrete consequences of Donald Trump’s funding freezes, rather than abstract arguments about democracy, ...
U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...
Democrats’ response this week to President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze all federal grants and loans already approved by ...
Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer receive child tax credits or tax breaks for low income earners ...
The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...
The local law enforcement agencies that protect Trump when he is at his Mar-a-Lago Club are asking for a federal grant to be ...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to hike Medicare fees for doctors by 6.62%, offsetting inflation and cuts made this ...
This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...
Congress could save billions by closing federal budget “loopholes” that have cost taxpayers more than $300 billion, a ...
From the funding freeze to the federal-employee buyout, the White House doesn’t seem to know what its own teams are doing.
The MSNBC host reflected on an "American hero" during a previous crash whom he called the "worst thing you can be in Donald ...
The U.S. currently holds $36.22 trillion in debt. That is a staggering figure creating rightful concern among Americans. It is also set to increase under President Donald Trump’s promise to extend ...