Budget Battles
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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
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Business Economists Diss Trump’s Policies
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How to Interpret Trump's Surprise Government Shutdown Threat
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Government Has Been a Drag on the Economy – but That’s About to Change
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A Warning About the Next Economic Crisis from Leaders Who Battled the Last One
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Lawmakers Battle Over Veterans Health Funding
Newsletter
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US Household Net Worth Grew to $107 Trillion in Q2
Boosted by higher property values and stock prices, the total net worth of U.S. households grew by almost $2.2 trillion in the second quarter of this year, reaching nearly $107 trillion, the Federal...
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Chart of the Day: GDP Growth Before and After the Tax Bill
President Trump and the rest of the GOP are celebrating the recent burst in economic growth in the wake of the tax cuts, with the president claiming that it’s unprecedented and defies what the...
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Trump Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ Spending Bill: Is a Shutdown Back on the Table?
President Trump on Thursday blasted the spending bill passed by the Senate earlier this week for its lack of funding for his border wall with Mexico. The bill is a key part of the congressional...
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Are the Tax Cuts Paying for Themselves?
The Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore, a longtime supply-sider who advised President Trump during the 2016 campaign, argues in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that “the corporate tax cut is paying...
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Federal Tax System Becoming More Progressive: Report
The U.S. tax system has become more progressive in recent years, says Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center, thanks to real income growth and changes in federal policy. While the tax cuts passed last...
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Spending Bills Leave Conservatives Frustrated
Lawmakers have been passing spending bills with unusual speed and little fanfare lately, most recently the $854 billion package covering the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor...
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Who Will Protect Medicare? GOP, Dems Duke It Out
The 2018 election may be a referendum on President Donald Trump, but it’s also turning into a battle over Medicare, at least in some key races. The Washington Post’s David Weigel reports that...