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Congress is Regifting Fiscal Insanity Artboard 1

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAd_MeMiKw[/embed] With the holiday season at a close, all eyes are back on Washington with news about the impeachment effort against President Donald Trump, precarious foreign policy with Iran, and … READ MORE

How Do We Pay for the Medicare We Have Now? Artboard 1

When it comes to Medicare, the only subject circulating in the news these days is the debate over Medicare For All and whether there is any way to pay for … READ MORE

Lonely Stances for the Next Generation Artboard 1

News about the sorry state of America’s fiscal affairs is often so frequent and met with such an unenthusiastic response from our political leaders that the warnings appear anticlimactic. This … READ MORE

General Mattis is Worried About the Direction of Our Country. We Should Be Too. Artboard 1

Former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps General Jim Mattis did a media circuit this week to promote the release of his new book on leadership, Call Sign Chaos. … READ MORE

Trillion Dollar Deficits as Far as the Analysts Can See Artboard 1

This week’s “Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029” from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the federal government will hit the trillion-dollar deficit mark in … READ MORE

It’s Time to Change the Utterly Pointless Debt Ceiling Artboard 1

This week, President Trump will sign into law the 79th debt ceiling extension since 1960. For decades, the debt limit - the statutory limit on federal debt - served as … READ MORE

The Missed Opportunity of the Budget Control Act Artboard 1

With the expected passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, the era of discretionary spending caps put in place by the Budget Control Act of 2011 will come to … READ MORE

Everything You Need to Know About This Week’s Big Budget Deal Artboard 1

8/2 Update: The House and Senate have both passed the Bipartisan Budget of 2019, sending it to the President's desk where he is expected to sign it. President Trump’s tweet … READ MORE

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