…Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, July 2023. Funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was one of many federal budget items that suddenly became uncertain during the debt ceiling…

by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Hospitals are pushing back on an experiment that would put providers on budgets. CMS should ignore their lobbyists and consultants playing games with numbers. Changing the…

…Policy Priorities, Before the Senate Committee on the Budget. After Decades of Costly, Regressive, and Ineffective Tax Cuts, a New Course Is Needed Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Chairman…

…accounts comes as VA Secretary Denis McDonough responded to a key House chairman’s demand for more information on the budget shortfall by the lawmaker’s deadline, but it’s unclear whether that…

…about 3% of national income and almost half of all federal discretionary budget outlays. What is this money spent on? While there had been talk in the past of a peace…

…their income from government programs—primarily through Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Those counties heavily support Republicans, including Trump. On Friday the Republican-dominated House Budget Committee presented its budget proposal to…

…affect the federal budget because they affect dependency ratios. The dependency ratio is the number of dependents (children and the elderly) relative to the working-age population. The old-age dependency ratio is…

…Summary of Budget and Off-Budget Results and Financing of the US Government February 2025 Page 5 Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government. For Fiscal Year 2025 Through February…

…for negotiations on a final budget.” Of course, Trump could veto the budget, but that would almost certainly lead to another unpopular government shutdown. It should be mentioned that that…

…formula for figuring the cost of living ends up reducing the money citizens will receive in their SS checks. One of our commenters, Denis Drew labeled it the Cascading CPI….