A recent Des Moines Register poll shows that Democrats and Republicans have very different opinions on the relative importance of the federal deficit versus unemployment and jobs. Among likely Iowa caucus-goers, 23 percent of Republicans ranked the deficit as the…
Medicare Part B premiums and deductibles will remain unchanged from the past two years, a development that administration officials attribute to lower Medicare spending growth. While this is good news for Americans over age 65, it is important to keep…
Washington is starting Fiscal 2015 with “no budget, no decisions on how to spend taxpayer money wisely and no credible plan to avoid adding trillions of dollars to the federal debt in the coming decade.”That troubling critique came in a…
U.S. military leaders recently announced they would ask Congress for more funding to combat the terrorist organization ISIS, a reminder of how unexpected developments can make continuing efforts to restrain defense spending more difficult.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently said the…
