ANDREW TAYLOR / The Associated PressJan 28, 2020
Deficits averaging 4.8% of GDP are foreseen over the course of the coming decade; experts say anything above 3% is unsustainable. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
RICHARD LARDNER / The Associated PressJan 21, 2018
Symbols of American promise have turned into emblems of dysfunction amid a dispute in Congress over spending and immigration that has closed federal agencies' doors. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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By Erica Werner / APSep 6, 2017
The president cuts a deal with Democrats to fund the government and raise the federal borrowing limit for three months, all part of an agreement to speed money to Harvey relief. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 31, 2013
As a share of national income, federal spending peaked during the Reagan administration; spending has increased only half as fast under President Obama as under President Bush; and declining revenues, not rising spending, accounts for the swelling federal deficit overseen by the Bush and Obama administrations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublicaNov 22, 2012
The recent inspector general’s report is the latest in a string of critical assessments DHS has received on its efforts to improve communication among federal, state and local agencies. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 15, 2011
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman employed a bit of imagination while discussing the need for fiscal stimulus on Fareed Zakaria's "GPS" last week, playfully suggesting that the discovery of an impending alien attack would force (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 12, 2010
President Obama's detractors apparently like to push the idea that he is responsible for jacking up government spending to new heights, but The New York Times' Paul Krugman took it upon himself to do away with this "myth," as he put it, in his column Sunday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 9, 2010
Bob Bennett, three-term Republican senator from Utah, has been ousted from running for re-election by the conservative tea party movement after he was deemed unfit (he supported health care reform). Bennett came in third at the state Republican convention in Salt Lake City. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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