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    Congress Prepares Stopgap Spending Bill to Avoid December Shutdown

    We’ve made it to December, and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — temperatures are dropping , parts of the country are blanketed by snow and the holiday shopping is in full swing. December...

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    National Debt Tops $36 Trillion

    On Thursday, the gross U.S. national debt surpassed $36 trillion for the first time, according to data from the Treasury Department . Debt held by the public – a subset of the gross national debt...

  • Waste, Waste, Glorious Waste

    Chart of the Day: Unauthorized Spending

    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said this week that they plan to target billions of dollars in “unauthorized” federal spending as part of their effort to trim waste from the budget. “DOGE will help end...