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When President Donald Trump returns to Wisconsin next year to campaign for re-election, he’ll have a tough time providing voters with a credible explanation for why the national debt has reached 

President Donald Trump’s take-no-hostages approach to the budget — manifest in his opposition to raising spending caps most lawmakers consider too tight — threatens to make the appropriations process even more difficult and drawn out than usual. . . . 

Federal budget projections are already quite alarming, with the national debt high by historical standards and rising rapidly.

Principles and Priorities, an interactive group exercise developed by The Concord Coalition, continues to help people around the country understand the difficult choices that must be made to put the federal budget

The Iowa House and Senate held its annual memorial service for legislators who passed away in the last year. Among those remembered was my longtime friend and mentor, former state Senate president and U.S. Congressman Leonard Boswell. . .

Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L.

President Trump has now reversed his own budget team on two high-profile cuts, leaving budget experts scratching their heads over the disconnect between the chief executive and the blueprint he signed his name to. . . . 

As the candidates compete to spend taxpayers’ money, watchdogs said it’ll be important for voters to judge how realistic are the offsetting spending cuts or, more frequently, tax increases.

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, will open a timely panel on the nation’s health care system April 5 at the Warren B. Rudman Center at the University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord.