Budget Battles
-
How Congress Cheats with Our Money — and How We Can Stop It
-
April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress.
-
When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
-
With Recent Laws, Congress Has Added $540 Billion to the 2019 Deficit
-
Why Trillion-Dollar Deficits Matter
-
Paul Ryan's Fiscal Legacy: Lots of Red Ink
-
Why Almost No One Is Happy About This Week's Balanced Budget Amendment Vote
-
How Congress Cheats with Our Money — and How We Can Stop It
By Marc Goldwein and Zach MollerThe U.S. is on course to top its record debt levels set after World War II, and permanent trillion-dollar deficits — meaning, forever — are likely to return within two years . And unlike after World...
-
Will Work for Food? Republicans Push Stricter Rules for SNAP
By Michael RaineyFunding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps, is provided in the farm bill, a massive spending and regulatory package Congress passes every...
-
April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress.
By Joseph J. Minarik and Caroline L. FergusonFebruary is Black History Month, March is National Women’s Month, and April? Well, it’s Financial Literacy Month, of course! The U.S. government gave financial literacy its own month in 2003. April...
-
Why All the Warnings About Unsustainable National Debt Could Be Wrong
By Michael RaineyInternational economists are warning about rising global debt levels and deficit hawks in Washington are increasingly worried about what they see as unsustainable debt levels in the U.S., but a new...
-
The US Has an Exceptional Debt Outlook – and Not in a Good Way
By Michael RaineyThe International Money Fund’s latest global fiscal survey warns that in five years, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will be higher than Italy’s, a nation not generally known for its exemplary fiscal...
-
Why More School Districts Are Holding Class Just Four Days a Week
By Sophie Quinton, StatelineThe public school in Campo, Colorado, hasn’t required all its students to come to class on Fridays for nearly two decades. The 44-student district dropped a weekday to boost attendance and better...
-
When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
By Michael RaineyIt may sound like a joke — Erik Sherman of Forbes said it seemed like something “from The Onion or Andy Borowitz at the New Yorker, only with less humor and pith” — but Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), chair...
-
With Recent Laws, Congress Has Added $540 Billion to the 2019 Deficit
Spending hikes and tax cuts passed since 2015 under the Trump and Obama administrations account for $540 billion of next year’s projected $981 billion budget deficit, or 55 percent, according to...
-
F-35 Deliveries Halted Over Repair Bill
By Michael RaineyThe F-35 Lightning II has yet to fire a shot in anger but the Pentagon is already arguing with manufacturer Lockheed Martin over a big repair bill. The Defense Department has stopped accepting most...
-
This State's a Big Winner When It Comes to Defense Spending
By Michael RaineySpending on huge weapons programs like the F-35, which has an estimated lifetime cost of more than $1 trillion, is carefully spread around the country to maximize its economic impact – and to make it...
-
Spending Bill Includes $320 Million for IRS to Implement Tax Law
By Michael RaineyA frequent target of Republican scorn, the IRS has seen its budget cut significantly in recent years. But the spending deal for 2018 boosts the agency’s budget by $196 million compared to 2017, for a...
-
Winners and Losers in the $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
It’s almost done. After weeks of closed-door negotiations and days of extended haggling, congressional leaders said they had all but completed a massive $1.3 trillion spending deal to fund the...
-
Pete Peterson Dies at Age 91
Peter G. Peterson, the self-made billionaire businessman and former Secretary of Commerce under President Richard M. Nixon who went on to become a leading voice warning about the dangers of the...
-
What’s Holding Up the Spending Deal — and Threatening Another Shutdown
Tick, tick, tick. Congressional leaders are still working to come up with a final version of the $1.3 trillion spending bill they must pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. Lawmakers are...
-
Appropriations Committee Chairs Grab for Dollars Before They Go
By The Fiscal Times StaffSenate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-MS), 80, is resigning April 1. House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) is retiring at the end of this congressional session...
Budget Directory
- The Fiscal Times (5375) Apply The Fiscal Times filter
- Reuters (505) Apply Reuters filter
- The Washington Post (403) Apply The Washington Post filter
- CNBC (133) Apply CNBC filter
- Roll Call (130) Apply Roll Call filter
- Defense One (104) Apply Defense One filter
- Stateline (68) Apply Stateline filter
- Government Executive (34) Apply Government Executive filter
- Associated Press (33) Apply Associated Press filter
- Kaiser Health News (33) Apply Kaiser Health News filter
- Business Insider (29) Apply Business Insider filter
- TheWeek.com (17) Apply TheWeek.com filter
- Next-Gov (13) Apply Next-Gov filter
- The Conversation (12) Apply The Conversation filter
- Knowledge@Wharton (11) Apply Knowledge@Wharton filter
- The Associated Press (10) Apply The Associated Press filter
- The Business Insider (10) Apply The Business Insider filter
- Oilprice.com (9) Apply Oilprice.com filter
- Minyanville (6) Apply Minyanville filter
- ProPublica (5) Apply ProPublica filter
- News (4877) Apply News filter
- Partner (1087) Apply Partner filter
- Column (325) Apply Column filter
- Latest-News (119) Apply Latest-News filter
- Analysis (94) Apply Analysis filter
- Opinion (61) Apply Opinion filter
- Op-Ed (38) Apply Op-Ed filter
- Feature (35) Apply Feature filter
- Slideshow (10) Apply Slideshow filter
- Service (9) Apply Service filter
- Blog (2) Apply Blog filter
- Research (1) Apply Research filter