That cost jumps closer to $4 trillion once rising interest payment costs are taken into account, according to fiscal experts.

The Senate’s top Democrat scored one tiny, largely meaningless win: Using Senate procedure, he forced Republicans’ official ...

Happy Monday! Now that President Donald Trump has signed into law his so-called big, beautiful bill, the fiscal focus shifts to tariffs, the spending bills needed to avoid a government shutdown ...

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Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Western North Dakota is the center of a major oil boom and has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Here are the highest-paying jobs in the area.

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons ...

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law one year ago today, pushing $1.9 trillion of relief sp ...

The problem with solutions is that few of them tend to be perfect, even if they act in a mostly benign manner.