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Before the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Thursday afternoon, July 3, ...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is required by law to provide economic analyses on major legislation.
Americans with student loan debt are more likely to vote and engage in political activities than those without debt, likely ...
"It only passed the house by one vote with a $2.3 trillion increase in the debt. To ask the House to vote for a bill that ...
By Dr. Mike Walden When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years. If anything, concerns about the ...
The United States on Friday reached $37 trillion in debt, less than a year after it surpassed $36 trillion .
With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...
As the people in charge of Congress scramble to meet a self-imposed July 4 deadline for passing their version of President ...
As it begins its 249th year in business as a country, the United States owes more than $30 trillion in debt and spends nearly $2 trillion more per year than it collects. Those numbers won’t be ...
WASHINGTON – Senators are releasing statements after the U.S. Senate passed President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks ...
Ben Harris is director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and the former chief economist at the Treasury ...