Americans have had plenty of warnings about the need to deal with the nation’s fiscal challenges. And judging ...
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned lawmakers that the government could hit its debt ceiling in mid-October, earlier ...
Social Security and Medicare are important, popular programs on which millions of Americans depend. But both require significant ...
Fiscal Year 2013 is drawing to a close with a projected federal deficit of a little over $640 ...
This year will mark the end of a four-year string of trillion-dollar-plus federal deficits that have troubled the ...
Recent developments in Washington have demonstrated both the difficulty of achieving a grand bargain on fiscal reform and ...
Last week Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel released a four-month Pentagon review that said the budget sequester cuts would ...
Congress has begun a recess that runs through early September despite completing no appropriations bills and making no ...
The independent Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has released a completely revised look at the size of the ...
Developments on the budget front last week demonstrated both the difficulty of achieving a grand bargain and why ...
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report makes clear that the failure of elected officials to agree on ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told lawmakers last week that the Highway Trust Fund would become insolvent in ...