House Republicans have pushed back their schedule for approving a budget resolution as some conservatives continue to oppose additional spending that was part of a bipartisan budget deal last fall. The House Budget Committee had been expected to consider a…
The administration is seeking roughly $1 billion in additional IRS funding that the agency says could improve customer service and step up enforcement work, resulting in billions of dollars in additional federal revenue. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen faced Republican skepticism,…
The federal debt has reached $19 trillion, an omen of increasingly severe financial difficulties for the United States unless Washington approves sweeping budget reforms. Well over $13.6 trillion of that total is known as “debt owed to the public,” meaning…
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…
