The official federal budget process was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The ...
Federal spending falls into two basic categories: mandatory spending and discretionary spending. Programs such as Social Security and ...
WASHINGTON -- It’s late June and Washington has no budget, no agreement on health care reform, no sign ...
Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly income to over 60 million ...
The federal government’s financial problems are so large that all parts of the budget -- from entitlements to ...
After a recent “Budgets & Beers” presentation concerning federal budget problems -- notably a massive and growing debt ...
President Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Kevin Hassett, appeared before the Senate ...
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned lawmakers recently that the deadline to raise or suspend the federal debt limit may be ...
The Trump administration’s budget plan rests heavily on the assumption that the American economy will grow much more ...
Leading policymakers in both parties, business leaders and prominent experts on the federal budget generally agreed at a ...
Members and guests of the Charlotte Economics Club in North Carolina gathered for a luncheon on May 18 ...
WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition expressed disappointment today in President Trump’s first budget proposal, saying it relies on ...
