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  • Debt ceiling

    Experts Warn of a Coming Fiscal Crisis as Trump Prepares to Take Charge

    By Eric Pianin

    With the Republicans’ new national agenda in a state of flux just a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office, some budget and tax analysts are warning of a dimming fiscal...

  • Both Trump and Clinton Would Drive the Federal Budget off a Cliff

    By Rob Garver

    A new analysis of the major party candidates’ tax and spending plans by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows that Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both advocating...

  • Sam Clovis

    Trump Policy Advisor Promises an Astounding $7 Trillion Surplus

    By Rob Garver

    Donald Trump sent Sam Clovis, who identifies himself as Trump’s chief policy advisor and the national co-chair of his presidential campaign, to Washington on Wednesday to talk to an audience of...

  • Outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) listens to accolades during a news conference on the two-year budget deal with the White House in Washington, October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

    Two Year Budget Deal Passes in the House

    By Kelsey Snell, The Washington Post

    Congress on Wednesday moved a step closer to clearing a bipartisan budget deal that would boost spending for domestic and defense programs over two years while suspending the debt limit into 2017...

  • Obama delivers remarks after a briefing on U.S. efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS), at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia

    Four Political Issues That Could Tank the Markets

    By Jeff Cox, CNBC

    Donald Trump's raucous presidential campaign won't be the only thing lighting the political fires this fall. A handful of significant deadlines and policy decisions loom for Washington and Wall...

  • Washington Inches Toward Another Fiscal Cliff

    By Eric Pianin

    After a long day of partisan finger pointing over the Amtrak train disaster, bickering over the defense budget, and worrying that the government is short-changing vital highway and infrastructure...

  • Obama’s Spending Spree Could Push Long-Term Deficit over $1 Trillion

    By Matthew Sabas, The Fiscal Times

    The decrease in the federal budget deficit has been touted as an accomplishment by many—most recently by President Obama during his State of the Union Address—but America’s debt situation is far from...

  • Will the Dow Cross 18,000 Threshold in the Week Ahead?

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Traders will be searching for any signs the economy and job market are really kicking into higher gear, as Friday's jobs report suggests. November saw the strongest employment gains in 35 months, and...

  • Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt

    By Eric Pianin

    Largely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...

  • $1.5B Over Budget, 10 Years Late: DHS HQ May Be Cut Off

    By Jerry Markon, The Washington Post

    The Department of Homeland Security’s long-delayed new headquarters is running into trouble in Congress again, with Republican lawmakers seeking to end funding for the troubled project and Democrats...

  • Bill Clinton Laughs Off Rove Attack on Hillary

    By Rob Garver

    At a summit dedicated to the fiscal future of the United States, former President Bill Clinton couldn’t steer away from more immediate political issues, including a top Republican’s recent suggestion...

  • U.S. Fiscal Policy Is Increasingly Managed by Dead Men

    By Rob Garver

    The House of Representatives on Friday voted to approve a measure that both increased the tax credit for business research and development and made it permanent, forging one more link in what...

  • The Tax Burden for Small Business Is Getting Worse

    By Sam Graves, Chairman-Small Business Committee

    This time of year is dreaded by small businesses – a time when many companies and individuals are finalizing their tax returns. This week, the Small Business Committee held a hearing that examined...

  • $6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department

    By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

    The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors. In a special “management alert ” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick...

  • Infrastructure Investment Would Help Workers

    By Rob Garver

    A top White House advisor on Tuesday defended the administration’s response to the financial crisis and great recession, and argued that the failure to adopt new infrastructure spending has helped...

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