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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 ...

Democrats are still trying to find their footing under the new administration, with some anti-Trump demonstrators urging them ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

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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 ...

The Trump administration is against broad student loan forgiveness, but you probably won't have to pay back debt relief you ...

Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

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 ...

Roosevelt (FDR) contributed the largest percentage increase to U.S. national debt to date. Roosevelt entered office when the United States was ... by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Biden ...

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