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Lawmakers in Washington have one must-do task each year: pass the twelve annual discretionary spending bills that fund the government for the upcoming fiscal year before October 1 when the new year begins.

Lawmakers in Washington have one must-do task each year: pass the twelve annual discretionary spending bills that fund the government for the upcoming fiscal year before October 1 when the new year begins.

For several months, Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC have been barreling towards each other on a collision course over a pair of looming fiscal deadlines.

"The Senate’s bipartisan physical infrastructure bill is a triumph of congressional dealmaking, the sort of thing President Biden extols and the likes of which we have

This week on Facing the Future, Tori Gorman and I discussed balance sheets, risk, and the “arrhythmia of finance'' with Peter Fisher, Senior Fellow at the Center for Business, Government & Society at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he also serves as a Clinical Profes

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Despite a pending government shutdown and looming debt default, this week federal lawmakers in Washington were hyper-focused on the House reconciliation legislation, the second installment of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. 

This week on Facing the Future, we got a thorough briefing on the latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Report from Dr.

This week on Facing the Future we went from Georgia to Colorado and back to Washington, D.C. as we discussed the upcoming reconciliation bill, a view from the grassroots, and the 2021 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Report. 

The United States Armed Forces uses an alert system called the “defense readiness condition” (DEFCON) to describe different levels of readiness, or states of alert, for military personnel.