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The administration unveiled a proposed budget Tuesday that would lower projected deficits and keep the debt stable as a share of the economy over the next 10 years. But the plan has no chance of winning approval from a Republican…

In its spending bill for Fiscal 2016, Congress seemed to acknowledge that medical research had been cut too deeply for over a decade. The legislation will boost that funding in the coming months. “But without reforms to address the basic…

A new report, released shortly before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, says that while all of the 2016 presidential candidates in both parties acknowledge that the rapidly growing national debt is a problem, most of their proposals to deal with it fall…

On the campaign trail, voters are hearing promises of big tax cuts from the Republican presidential candidates and of big spending increases from the Democrats. Meanwhile, back in Washington last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new…

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, in a Your First Budget interview, said recently her initial priorities in Washington would be to revamp the tax code and institute “zero-based budgeting.” The Your First Budget interview series is sponsored by First Budget…

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie was the most recent Fiscal Fridays guest, stressing the need to reform both the tax code and entitlement programs. Noting that much of the federal budget is devoted to entitlement programs, the New Jersey governor…

Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and private-sector leaders expressed concern about how irresponsible fiscal policies could harm the country’s economic future at a forum Monday in Portsmouth, N.H. “Getting something done on these issues…

Republican presidential candidates Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina will appear this weekend on Your First Budget, a series on the MC22 television network that is providing voters in Iowa and elsewhere with critical information on the fiscal and economic proposals…