Budget Battles
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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
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Why Almost No One Is Happy About This Week's Balanced Budget Amendment Vote
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Yellen, Democratic Economists Say Fixing Debt Crisis Isn’t All About Entitlements
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Congress Was Hoping to Ride the Tax Cuts to the Election, but Trump May Have Other Plans
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Trump Discussed Rolling Back Part of $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
Newsletter
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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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Global Dealmaking on Path to New High
The tax cuts are providing a big boost for corporate dealmaking, as t he lower corporate tax rate and the repatriation of foreign holdings free up cash that companies can use to make new investments...
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Rates on US Bonds Now Higher Than for Other Developed Countries
Rising interest rates in the U.S. have pushed the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds higher than the yields for similar government bonds from seven major developed countries for the first times since...
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More NATO Nations Meeting the 2% Pledge
President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last week, offering the president an opportunity to highlight recent increases in military spending in Europe. “[W]e’ve increased and...
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3 Big Risks the US Faces as Debt Levels Soar
In a new note to clients, Goldman Sachs economists say that U.S. fiscal outlook “is not good.” If you’re reading this you likely already knew that the picture isn’t pretty — but the new Goldman Sachs...
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White House Targets Planned Parenthood Funding
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would withhold federal Title X family-planning funding from any facility or program that provides abortions or refers patients to abortion clinics...
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![A small group of demonstrators stand outside of of a hotel before former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, president of the The Heritage Foundation, speaks at a "Defund Obamacare Tour" rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Nate](http://cdn.thefiscaltimes.com/cdn/farfuture/qXYuN8hy3wLlqioNy0Ki3Z7KIRg2GE2VIoL8ZFmGPRE/mtime:1526679272/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/reuters/usa-election-obamacare_1.jpg?itok=IklKnaVD "A small group of demonstrators stand outside of of a hotel before former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, president of the The Heritage Foundation, speaks at a "Defund Obamacare Tour" rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Nate")
GOP Efforts to Undermine Obamacare Will Raise Premiums by $1,000: Report
Recent changes to the health insurance system will increase premiums on the federal marketplace substantially in 2019, according to a new analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress. As...