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Almost exactly one year after Congress swore off self-inflicted fiscal crises, we're back to the same tired theatrics.

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This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

"Adjudicating aid based on some political formula or … living in a state with a governor out of favor with the prevailing ...

But the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that Donald Trump and JD Vance advanced at their press briefing Thursday—which was nominally in response to the tragic mid-air ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he'd be willing to negotiate with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, something President ...

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Speaking to the three top House Republican leaders over the past three days at the House GOP retreat here in Doral, Fla., ...