AI meets the Department Of Government Efficiency
…or Trump be damned.” Of course, the GOP Congress can’t even pass a continuing resolution these days. This ain’t your father’s budget process, peeps. AI, DOGE and the federal budget…
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“an unelected billionaire from South Africa was able to intimidate Republican legislators”
…Democrats cut the budget back to 2022 levels. Democrats objected that they had raised the debt ceiling without conditions three times under Trump and that Republicans had agreed to the…
There won’t be defense spending cuts
…cuts. No surprise, since Congress wouldn’t approve a budget with defense cuts anyway—that’s just tooth fairy thinking. Budget cuts are for civilian programs. Hesgeth says no cuts to DoD budget…
The Impact of Debt Interest Payments
…recessional experience similar to what the US experienced in 1981 and 1982. Interest on the Debt to Grow Past $1 Trillion Next Year, 2025-02-06, CRFB The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest…
State Comparisons of Student Loans Balances to State Budget etc,
No words. Just numbers . . . Student Loan Justice Org. I lied . . . some words. The first, oldest and largest citizen’s group in the nation fighting for…
A plan for full privatization of the USPS appears to have lost steam
…Valley — that companies are better than government at saving money and responding to people’s needs. Examples are popping up across Washington and in proposals from President Donald Trump’s allies,…
The Republican bill will cut Medicare
…begin next year. “The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 requires the Office of Management and Budget to keep scorecards that track the cumulative effects of legislation on the budget…
Budget negotiations: funding health insurance, or protecting democracy, science, and universities?
Congress needs to pass a funding bill by the end of September to avoid a government shut down. In theory, the Democrats should have some leverage in these negotiations due…
Republicans say VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S.
…reimbursement of these non-VHA doctors, therapists, hospitals, and clinics now costs the federal government more than $30 billion per year, nearly one-third of the VA’s entire direct care budget. Collins’s…
Big Bird’s Obituary
…these programs in the budget. That was when we learned that this Republican-led Congress lacked the spine to oppose Trump, even when it meant giving up its own power. Republicans…