The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget and economic outlook includes a troubling projection for net inte ...

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

The federal government has congressionally approved buyout authority that’s capped at $25,000. Trump’s plan allows workers ...

We not only have the right but the duty to hold our public servants accountable. Given that our country is fast approaching bankruptcy, we should be grateful that this process has finally begun.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Debt rankers appear to have been more coy in recent years on risks of developed economies than emerging markets ...

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

A federal judge on Tuesday delayed a sweeping order by the Trump administration to freeze trillions in federal grants and ...