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GOP seeks upper hand as prospect of automatic budget cuts stirs fears
The Hill via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCongress faces more government funding headaches in 2024 as lawmakers stare down what could be...
Federal budget deficit expected to soar to $2.6 trillion in 2034, CBO says
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe federal budget deficit will balloon from $1.6 trillion this fiscal year to $2.6 trillion in...
Despite (Many) Past Failures, Some Politicians Are Again Pushing A Bipartisan Debt Panel
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAmid the daily political infighting on Capitol Hill, some high-profile Republicans are feeling a...
Fact-check: Did Biden administration cut deficit by $1.5 trillion?
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDeclaring this a record sidesteps the highly unusual circumstances that made it possible — the...
The GOP’s Big Idea To Stop Spending Has Been Tried Before, And It Only Sort Of Worked
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThroughout the on-and-off negotiations over whether to raise the debt limit, congressional...
Is Joe Biden Pushing a Backdoor Cut to Social Security Benefits?
Motley Fool· 1 year agoPresident Joe Biden was adamant in his State of the Union address last month about his support of...
The debt-ceiling solution will be phony spending cuts
Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoRepublicans, led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, insist on government spending cuts as a condition...
Biden unveils sweeping budget blueprint for next term
The Hill via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPresident Biden on Monday rolled out his sweeping, $7.3 trillion budget request for 2025, with a set...
Kevin McCarthy Says Republicans Will 'Protect' Social Security. What’s That Mean?
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON — Some Republicans have said that once they controlled the House of Representatives, they...
Great job, Biden! Social Security is going broke and debt payments are breaking the bank
USA TODAY Opinion· 1 month agoIf you or I decided to go wild with our credit cards and didn’t pay off those balances regularly, we...