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US federal budget crosses grim milestone as interest payments overtake defense spending
Yahoo Finance· 6 hours agoInterest is now the third-biggest expenditure after Social Security and health. And...are running...
Interest costs on the national debt just surpassed spending on defense, Medicare
FOX Business· 4 days agoIn fact, interest costs have topped spending on veterans, education and transportation combined....
In Defense of Defense Spending
The Dispatch via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThe stark budgetarily reality is that mounting Social Security and Medicare shortfalls (rising from $650 billion this year to $2.2 trillion a decade from...
Iowa lawmakers failed to advance nursing home legislation. Why and what’s next?
The Gazette· 3 days agoIowa’s nursing homes continue to be plagued by low staffing and high turnover. According to data...
Warren Buffett is wrong on taxes
The Escanaba Daily Press· 5 days agoMany people have made money by following the advice of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Speaking at his company’s annual hedge fund shareholders gathering, Buffett predicted the government ...
Imagine if the government offered dental care. New federal rule could make that a reality.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe deficit in dental coverage is immense: Nearly 69 million U.S. adults did not have dental...
Medicaid unwinding deals blow to tenuous system of care for Native Americans
Bozeman Daily Chronicle· 2 hours agoAbout a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility after the covid-19 public health...
Republicans’ appetite for government: Most want expansion, not cuts, of entitlement programs
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoWell over half of Republicans (56%) would like to see the federal government do more to support the...
U.S. debt by president: dollar and percentage 2024
Consumer Affairs· 5 days agoNational debt, also known as federal debt or public debt, is the historical accumulation of the U.S. federal government’s financial obligations. The national debt increases when the federal ...
Trump’s immigration plan could add trillions of dollars to national debt, fueling inflation and...
Market Watch· 4 days agoRelated: Extending the Trump tax cuts could ‘run the deficit into the stratosphere.’ Trump has...
