Climate strikes, "Medicare for All," national security whistleblowers, and Canadian blackface scandals are all distractions from D.C.'s core function: spending more money than we have.
The conservative radio host says he is running for president because Trump is “erratic" and "cruel." But Walsh has his own history to live down.
Plus: Fashion versus the police state, a truce in the Kansas-Missouri border war, and more....
By nearly every measure, Americans are getting richer and richer. This should be cause for celebration, not concern.
The $866 billion budget gap so far this fiscal year represents a 27 percent increase over the same period last year.
The idea that "deficits don't matter" has been growing among Trump-supporting Republicans. Democrats are preparing to take full advantage.
As debt soars, federal payments to service the debt will crowd out the government's core spending responsibilities.
CNN doesn't think Americans deserve to hear potential presidents asked about the national debt.
While the president was launching yet another culture war, the combatants were agreeing to blow the federal budget sky high.
Members of Congress are well aware of the looming threat of the $22 trillion (and growing) national debt, but seem incapable of doing anything except making it worse.
The island's residents have had enough of a territorial government tainted by corruption and that is seemingly contemptuous of their daily struggles.
The House Freedom Caucus could reverse its trend towards irrelevancy by successfully swaying Trump to turn against the new budget deal.
If President Donald Trump signs the deal into law, he will have authorized a 22 percent increase in federal discretionary spending during his first term in office.
The federal government will spend $57 trillion over the next 10 years and run an $11 trillion deficit. But cutting spending by $150 billion is too much to ask?
If Mark Sanford wants to run a presidential campaign on restraining federal spending, he's in the wrong party.
The pundit heavily criticized President Obama for excessive spending. Now he says it doesn't matter.
Those who disagree with Elizabeth Warren's economics tried really hard not to say so during the Dems' first presidential debate
Early debates actually tell us a good deal about where political parties are heading.
The national debt will hit 140 percent of GDP before the end of the 2040s, and that's the optimistic scenario.
Parsing Trump's foreign policy, economic theories, and ideological relationship with the 2020 Democratic field
A new book explores how America's criminal justice system heaps debts on those who can't possibly pay.
The federal budget situation used to be an emergency. What happened?
"Show me the majority for cutting spending," he says.
Paul's proposal to cut 2 percent from the federal budget for the next five years was predictably opposed by both Democrats and most Republicans
What's the point of a "limited government" bloc that doesn't limit government?
Being a presidential candidate means never having to say sorry for heavy-handed proposals to limit choice and promise free stuff.
America will face "serious economic, security, and social challenges" if the national debt keeps growing at this rate.
Behind the usual partisan contempt for deficit-minded centrism lies an accurate critique that the billionaire outsider has naive, do-something ideas.
The feds are $234 billion in the red. Looking for hope? Sen. Mike Enzi has some ideas.
An anthology series about sad salesmen, space marines, super-intelligent yogurt, and the national debt
Trump's budget projects 10 straight years of 3 percent growth. If this forecast fails to materialize, it will make the budget deficits worse than projected.
He's a free trader against dumping, a deficit hawk for Medicare expansion, and an anti-drug warrior who wants to imprison pharma execs.
The 2020 presidential candidate ran on spending cuts, troop withdrawls, and means-testing Social Security while primarying an incumbent Democrat 7 years ago.
Once you get past the rosy economic expectations, it's clear that Trump's budget is not a serious effort at fiscal restraint.
And the real outcome is likely to be worse, since the budget relies on overly rosy assumptions about future economic growth.
Beto O'Rourke-who won't call himself a "progressive," let alone a "democratic socialist"-is expected to jump into the presidential race.
A new report predicts Medicare spending will rise faster than private health care spending.
With the federal government $22 trillion in debt, Congress has decided to spend more money.
A new record, but one that won't stand for long.
From OMB head Mick Mulvaney to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, nobody cares about spending money we don't have on things we don't need. Big mistake.
Or the $22 trillion (and counting) national debt. Or the entitlement programs that will continue adding to them.
Unless we make some big changes, things won't get much better.
How would you like it if nearby strangers could instantly access your credit score on their phones?
A year after the tax law, growth is up but tax revenue is down.
Proponents of jacking top marginal income tax rates such as AOC ignore how hard it is to actually boost revenue over the long haul.
You can't have it both ways.
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