By any measure, this has been an eventful year on the budget front. As 2021 draws to a ...
What began as a tense week of dangerous brinkmanship over the debt limit in Congress is ending with ...
With pressure mounting to avoid a default on federal government obligations, Senate leaders Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat ...
Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent her fourth letter to Congress, urging lawmakers “to protect the ...
For several months, Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC have been barreling towards each other on a collision course ...
The United States Armed Forces uses an alert system called the “defense readiness condition” (DEFCON) to describe different ...
Budget Breakthrough After moving at a breakneck pace and holding a special session, the House and Senate passed an ...
For understandable reasons, the focus in Washington over the past year has been on the nation’s physical health, ...
The House and Senate have now passed a bipartisan budget deal. If signed by the president, as expected, ...
There’s a familiar ring to the latest report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the nation’s fiscal ...
As federal agencies and millions of Americans struggle to recover from Washington’s partial shutdown over this year’s budget, ...
In part because of new deficit-financed tax cuts, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has moved up its projection ...