Biden, Trump, and RFK Jr. Are All Anti-Freedom
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
The national debt has become an alarm bell ringing in the distance that people are pretending not to hear, especially in the city that caused the problem.
The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
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The Congressional Budget Office reports the 2024 budget deficit will near $2 trillion.
We could grow our way out of our debt burden if politicians would limit spending increases to just below America's average yearly economic growth. But they won't even do that.
The average American will lose between $5,000 and $14,000 annually by 2054 due to the burden of the growing national debt.
Lawmakers should be freed from "the dead hand of some guy from 1974," says former Congressional Budget Office director.
Will the real president of the United States during the years 2020 through 2022 please stand up?
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
The cuts are part of the president's broader strategy to achieve fiscal balance at any cost.
The growing debt will "slow economic growth, drive up interest payments," and "heighten the risk of a fiscal crisis," the CBO warns.
If you can't even get close to balancing the budget when unemployment is low, tax revenues are near record highs, and the economy is booming, when can you do it?
The total appropriations package would cut $200 billion over 10 years, as the national debt expands by $20 trillion.
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But the Congressional Budget Office projection assumes we will not cut immigration levels, as is likely to happen if Trump returns to power.
New Congressional Budget Office data shows how higher-than-expected immigration is a win for the economy and the federal budget.
Three things to know about the new Congressional Budget Office report on the growing federal deficit.
And why the Congressional Budget Office does a poor job of making those estimates.
The reality raises questions about the kind of future we want to leave for the next generation.
The federal government is borrowing money at a mind-spinning rate, and you can't blame it on the COVID-19 pandemic anymore.
California is facing a projected deficit of $68 billion, a larger amount than the entire annual budget of the state of Florida.
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
A fiscal commission might be a good idea, but it's also the ultimate expression of Congress' irresponsibility.
Servicing debt grows more expensive as the deadline to curb the spending spree gets closer.
Moody's calculates that interest payments on the national debt will consume over a quarter of federal tax revenue by 2033, up from just 9 percent last year.
In the last 50 years, when the budget process has been in place, Congress has managed only four times to pass a budget on time.
"The United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt."
The federal budgeting process was broken long before Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy's recent spat.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
Congress is being asked to borrow more money to fund broadband access and other pet projects. Only about $9 billion would be spent on natural disaster recovery efforts.
A debt commission won't solve any of the federal government's fiscal problems, but it's the first step towards taking them seriously.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
The Federal Reserve's higher interest rates were supposed to trigger changes to fiscal policy. So far, that hasn't happened.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
Rising bond yields mean the national debt is going to be a lot more expensive in the next few years, and we just keep adding to it.
Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.
The big spending has fueled higher inflation, resulted in larger-than-projected deficits, and contributed to a record level of debt.
It's not the first time that has happened, but there are key differences about what happened this year.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Short-term solutions and governing from crisis to crisis isn't working.
"Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," Haley said during the opening moments of Wednesday's first Republican primary debate.
Federal officials ignore repeated warnings, and we all pay the price.
The lack of oversight and the general absence of a long-term vision is creating inefficiency, waste, and red ink as far as the eye can see.
Though an improvement over his obsession with wokeness and culture wars, DeSantis can't seem to ditch the populist demagoguery.
The national debt has ballooned from $14 trillion to $32 trillion in a little over a decade.
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