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Senate Finance committee members harshly criticized an effort to test new ways to pay for certain drugs in Medicare Part B, showing how difficult it is to reform the federal government’s largest health care program. This spring, the Center for…

Senators last week continued to struggle with Fiscal 2017 spending bills, with heated disputes over gun control measures, Planned Parenthood and funding levels to fight the Zika virus throwing appropriations work off-track. The House, meanwhile, was on an extended July…

U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) will discuss her approach to the federal government’s fiscal challenges in an interview that will air online tomorrow at 10:30 a.m., as part of Fiscal Fridays, the public affairs television series on the New Hampshire-based…

House Republicans produced a white paper last week that provides some information on the types of health care policies they would pursue after passing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Culled primarily from prior Republican proposals, the patchwork…

The 2016 reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees confirm again that these critical programs are on unsustainable paths and will put increasing pressure on the rest of the federal budget in the years ahead. “The trustees do not…

U.S. congressional candidate Jack Flanagan will discuss his approach to the federal government’s fiscal challenges in an interview that will air online tomorrow at 11 a.m., as part of Fiscal Fridays, the public affairs television series on the New Hampshire-based…

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) lists numerous options for extending the solvency of the Social Security Disability Insurance trust fund, including raising payroll taxes, reducing benefits and creating incentives for people to work. Until last fall…

House lawmakers approved defense appropriations legislation last week that would use a war-funding gimmick to circumvent spending limits that were agreed to just last fall. The appropriations bill, which passed 282-138, follows defense policy legislation that the House approved last…