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The federal budget deficit increased by $109 billion in first 10 months of fiscal year 2025 despite a $70 billion boost from ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) informed Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in a letter ...
That’s higher than the $440 billion in extra borrowing costs CBO estimated in June, before Republicans reworked many of the ...
Put like that, this starts to sound like one of the rarest discoveries in federal budgeting: a free lunch. That means a ...
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' is gonna explode the deficit? I'm starting to see a pattern here. Maybe putting a serial bankruptcy ...
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new analysis showing that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act adds at least $4.1 trillion—and ...
Senators from both parties are alarmed over America's debt crisis after Trump signed the “one big beautiful bill," which the ...
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will actually add over $4 trillion to the deficit, some $700 billion more than previously ...
Both chambers of Congress are in August recess, and Republican lawmakers are using the time to promote the tax cuts passed in ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the Medicaid provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will leave 7.8 million people without health insurance by 2034, not 10.3 million or more as ...
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Higher borrowing costs are driving up an estimate of the impact to the U.S. budget deficit from President Donald Trump’s ...