As federal agencies and millions of Americans struggle to recover from Washington’s partial shutdown over this year’s budget, we are now facing a potential crisis over the federal debt limit that could have an even greater negative impact. The debt…
Elected officials in both parties have expressed interest for years in boosting federal investment in the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. So, too, have business leaders and many economists who say that such a commitment would support stronger economic growth and is…
Even as lawmakers and President Trump continued to argue over spending plans for the current fiscal year, the federal deficit grew in the first quarter of the year by $317 billion, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).…
The federal government’s chief health care actuaries have released their wrap-up of 2017 National Health Expenditures, showing that health care spending remained nearly the same percentage of the economy as in 2016: 17.9 percent. The actuaries saw 2017 as a…
