The decades-long history of the debt ceiling fight - Marketplace
Marketplace· 5 days agoExcept that last one — the debt ceiling — that is one lesson we can’t seem to learn. In fact, there...
Hard-right backtrack on spending levels leaves sour taste for colleagues
Washington Post· 1 week ago“Everyone who voted for that bill essentially kept in place the Biden...to get to a lower top-line...
Leubsdorf: New year to have old fight: Congress avoided shutdown, but didn’t solve big issues
The Columbian· 2 weeks agoThe new House speaker, Mike Johnson, gave federal workers, U.S. troops and the American people a...
COMMENTARY: A recipe for addressing our looming fiscal crisis
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 3 days agoFailure to act is not an option because it directly threatens our future economic prosperity,...
Michael Smolens: Rep. Peters, Sen. Romney, others face uphill battle in tackling federal debt
U-T San Diego· 5 days agoRep. Scott Peters has a unique perspective on a very big number — the nearly $34 trillion federal ...
Power of the purse
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe local police catch them a few days later and place them into separate interrogation rooms. If Bonnie will rat out Clyde, they will release her with...
Momentum builds for special commission to tackle $34T in US debt
AOL· 2 weeks agoMembers across Congress have been pressing for a fiscal commission aimed at exploring ways to reduce...
Opinion: What’s it like to be an average American?
The Virginian-Pilot· 4 hours agoThe average American adult spends nearly three hours per day watching television. In 2011, the average American ate around 1 ton of food per year, or...
Author Molly Weisner | Federal Times
Federal Times· 1 day agoMolly Weisner is a staff reporter for Federal Times where she covers labor, policy and contracting pertaining to the government workforce ...
Mike Johnson Repeats Kevin McCarthy’s Mistake: Trying to Govern
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 week agoNow that Congress has punted its most intransigent problem—keeping the government funded—to early...