Three Takeaways from the Democratic Debate
Trump Wants to Divert Military Funds to His Wall Again
Trump’s ‘Four Pinocchio’ Tax Claim
How the GOP Will Attack Bernie Sanders' Wealth Tax
A Promising Idea to Cut Health-Care Costs Fizzles
The Staggering Cost of US Health Care Bureaucracy
Good News for Tax Cheats
Medicare’s ‘Astonishing Amount of Waste’ on Drugs
The Path to War?
Bill Gates Calls for Higher Taxes on the Rich
2020 Preview: The Fiscal and Economic Picture in 10 Charts
Unhappy Birthday? Trump Tax Cuts Turn 2
Bad Eating Habits Cost U.S. $50 Billion a Year
Explaining Washington’s Love of Zombies
1 Big Winner and 1 Big Loser From Congress’s Year-End Spending Deal
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Trump Tax Cuts Have Saved 6 Big Banks $32 Billion
The six biggest U.S. banks have saved $32 billion in taxes, including $18 billion last year, as a result of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, Yalman Onaran reports at Bloomberg News. The average effective tax...
Trump Wants to Divert Military Funds to His Wall Again
President Trump is planning to shift $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds toward construction of border barriers this year — more than his administration reprogrammed last year and five times what Congress...
4 Potential Reforms for the Capital Gains Tax
Reforming the capital gains tax is one way to simultaneously address both rising inequality and growing federal deficits, say William G. Gale and Grace Enda of the Brookings Institution. The current...
More Than 2 Million Adults Fall Into Medicaid ‘Coverage Gap’
The Affordable Care Act enabled states to expand their Medicaid programs to include millions of low-income adults, but as of today 14 states have declined to do so (see this tracker for more details...
The Deficit Topped $1 Trillion in 2019
The federal budget deficit for calendar year 2019 topped $1 trillion, according to data released by the Treasury Department Monday. Some details: The shortfall from January through December totaled $...
Trump and Bloomberg Clash Over Health Care
Following the release of a new ad from Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg that accuses President Trump of being a “destroyer” when it comes to health care, the president claimed in a...
Chart of the Week: Trump Adds $4.7 Trillion in Debt
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated this week that President Trump has now signed legislation that will add a total of $4.7 trillion to the national debt between 2017 and 2029...
House Democrats Likely to Skip Budget Resolution This Year
House Democrats are likely to skip passing a budget resolution this year, House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said, according to The Hill’s Niv Elis : “Over the summer, congressional...