The 'fat' in the federal budget is in the form of Medicaid, Medicare and especially Social Security. Any fix involves these ...

The CBO issues economic forecasts and reports related to the federal budget, and the Budget Committee uses the information to ...

Former President Trump's annual budget proposals would have reduced spending on Medicare. Most of the cuts targeted medical ...

Though they disagree on a variety of topics, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have vowed ...

Two of the main types of assets that middle-income households own are already taxed in ways that resemble proposals to tax ...

The US Treasury Department reports a $380.0B deficit in August, driven by higher outlays and interest costs on the national ...

A Manhattan Institute study has found that the mass deportation of unskilled criminal aliens would greatly reduce America's national deficit.

PERSPECTIVES: In the shadow of tragedy, America's gun violence epidemic rages on—fueled not just by firearms, but by a ...

Tasmanian Treasurer Michael Ferguson's third budget sells a message of restraint during an economic storm, with a return to ...

Proposition 35 asks California voters to make permanent a tax on health insurance providers, also known as managed care ...

There were some positions that were created under the ARPA funding. Once that funding source is gone, we do not have the ...

One glaring omission from both the Democratic and Republican platforms are substantive proposals to curb the deficit. To be ...