A republican controlled Congress is looking to raid the ACA. Republicans consider reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion…

…release his 2027 budget plan tomorrow, in time to use it to shape Republicans’ argument for the midterm elections in November. Like Trump’s budget requests for 2026, it calls for…

…social programs. President Trump’s recently released 2027 budget proposal tilts towards guns and away from butter. It calls for a 44 percent increase in defense spending, boosting it to $1.5…

…to the Republican budgetary disinformation campaign. First of all, I would be holding hearings five days a week in the Senate Appropriations Committee and every other Senate committee on the…

Suppose I make my monthly budget, and assume I’m going to spend $600 for food. At the end of the month, I discover that I only spent $520. I expected…

…abstract/teaser for the article starts out with this: The concepts of solvency, sustainability, and budget impact are common in discussions of Social Security, but are not well understood. To which…

…and Harry Reid are doing to the deficit.” The budget deficit, of course, has dropped dramatically since 2010. And basic government agencies such as the National Weather Service, the National…

Go read Mark Thoma. Because he’s a kinder, gentler human being than I am: The time to stand up to the budget busting was when it happened, and when members…

Here’s the Penn Wharton Budget Model breakdown for how much each candidate’s economic proposals will affect the national debt: “We estimate that the Trump Campaign tax and spending proposals would…

…take to the streets and to refuse to vote for any member of the GOP. Recall that the beginning of the current trend towards too little tax revenues and especially…