In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations budget hearing on Capitol Hill on May 15. (Yuri Gripas/AP) Congress will head into its Memorial Day recess ...

Federal education policymakers find themselves at a critical intersection of budget policy and human investment as they consider budget reconciliation legislation. Updated, March 4, 2025: This post ...

Discover key arguments for and against a balanced federal budget, exploring potential impacts on national debt, taxpayers, and future economic stability.

I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your pocket (rough average for an American) or knowing the total U.S.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- If you're a federal employee, job security might be one of your top concerns right now. Nearly 1,000 Washingtonians are without a job because of the federal budget cuts. Since ...

Funds for yet another government program are on track for depletion and could put higher education further out of reach for millions of Americans, according to research from the nonprofit Committee ...

The latest Congressional Budget Office long-term projections demonstrate just how unsustainable our current fiscal trajectory is. This statement probably does not come as a surprise, but it invites ...

President Trump achieved his goal of shrinking the work force. But many current and former officials say the government is ...

The Federal Government publishes the spending and revenue numbers on a monthly basis. The government fiscal year closes at the end of September, but this analysis will look at the calendar year budget ...

The competing priorities of trimming the federal budget while freeing up funds to pay for further tax cuts mean Republicans may have to renege on some of their key America First pledges. House ...