Budget Battles
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April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress
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When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
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With Recent Laws, Congress Has Added $540 Billion to the 2019 Deficit
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Why Trillion-Dollar Deficits Matter
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Paul Ryan's Fiscal Legacy: Lots of Red Ink
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Why Almost No One Is Happy About This Week's Balanced Budget Amendment Vote
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Yellen, Democratic Economists Say Fixing Debt Crisis Isn’t All About Entitlements
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Congress Was Hoping to Ride the Tax Cuts to the Election, but Trump May Have Other Plans
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Trump Discussed Rolling Back Part of $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
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The Problem a Balanced Budget Amendment Can’t Fix
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A Surprise Winner in the $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill
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The Spending Deal: $1.3 Trillion, 2,232 Pages, One Messy Process
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7 Big Pentagon Numbers in the $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
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Spending Bill Includes $320 Million for IRS to Implement Tax Law
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Waiting for the Omnibus: Clock Is Ticking on $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill
Newsletter
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April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress
February 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...
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Why the Media War Over Trump's Tax Cuts Is Just Getting Started
Tax Day is, of course, the perfect time for Republicans and Democrats to resume their messaging battle over the GOP tax law that passed late last year. Republicans took to TV and social media to hail...
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The Biggest Winners from the GOP Tax Cuts (Hint: It Isn't Workers)
This won’t help the GOP’s tax cut message: U.S. companies are using the benefits of their tax cuts to reward shareholders and management far more than they are on hiring and pay raises, according to...
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Computer Problems Plague the IRS on Tax Day … and Bigger Troubles May Lie Ahead
It wasn’t a very happy Tax Day for the IRS, which announced it was “experiencing technical difficulties” with some computer systems and temporarily couldn’t accept returns from tax preparers,...
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When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
It 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...
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What Americans Really Think About Taxes
Happy Tax Day! Ok, so maybe you’re not actively celebrating the IRS deadline, but Americans are now less likely than at any time since 2012 to say that the federal income taxes they pay are too high...
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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...