Budget Battles
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Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent to $779 Billion
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Trump’s Border Wall: A Christmastime Clash Is Coming
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GOP Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s Federal Pay Freeze
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Larry Kudlow Wants to Put a ‘Big Dent’ in Government Spending
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Four States That Will Founder When the Next Recession Hits
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Why Trump May Opt for a Shutdown
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Trump Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ Spending Bill: Is a Shutdown Back on the Table?
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Are Deficit Hawks Dead or Just Playing Possum?
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Why Democrats Want to Bring Back Earmarks
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Congress Reaches Spending Deal to Avoid Shutdown. Will Trump Go Along?
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Obama: 'Suddenly Deficits Do Not Matter'
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Freedom Caucus Divided on Shutdown
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Trump Told GOP Leaders He Won’t Force a Shutdown. Will He Keep That Promise?
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Senate Passes $854 Billion Spending Bill in Hopes of Averting Government Shutdown
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What It Would Take to Dig Out from the Mountain of Federal Debt
Newsletter
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What Will Work Requirements for Medicaid and Food Stamps Really Accomplish?
A new paper from the Brookings Institution raises more doubts about the usefulness of work requirements for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). More than a dozen states...
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GOP Scrambles to Send a Pre-Election Message on Pre-Existing Conditions
From The Hill’s Jessie Hellmann : “Thirty-two of the 49 GOP incumbents in races deemed competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report have backed congressional measures on pre-existing...
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Chart of the Day: The Surge in Medicare Advantage Enrollment
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the government-funded private health plans that serve as an alternative to traditional Medicare, has doubled since 2010, writes Phil Galewitz at Kaiser Health News...
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Trump Administration Seeks to Force Drugmakers to Post Prices in Ads
The Trump administration is pushing ahead with its plan to require drugmakers to disclose their list prices for medications in consumer advertising, much as they warn about possible side effects. The...
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Fact Check: Who’s Right on Protections for Preexisting Conditions?
Ensuring that people with preexisting health conditions can get and keep health insurance is the most popular part of the Affordable Care Act. It has also become a flashpoint in this fall’s campaigns...
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Number of the Day: $132,900
The cap on Social Security payroll taxes will rise to $132,900 next year, an increase of 3.5 percent. (Earnings up to that level are subject to the Social Security tax.) The increase will affect...
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Clarifying the Drop in Obamacare Premiums
We told you Thursday about the Trump administration’s announcement that average premiums for benchmark Obamacare plans will fall 1.5 percent next year, but analyst Charles Gaba says the story is a...