The VA would see a 4% spending increase under the FY 2026 budget proposal, but is looking to cut about 2,000 positions from ...

A $1 billion voucher program, touted as “the largest school-choice program in American history,” will go toward students’ ...

The Des Moines Art Center and Waterloo Center for the Arts collaborated to bring a culturally significant exhibit featuring ...

Republicans are using Congress’s official budget scorer as a whipping boy, as they argue a major package of President Trump’s tax priorities is costless, despite multiple projections placing ...

How any Republican could ever claim to be conservative and vote for a budget that adds $20 trillion to a $37 trillion debt ... is just beyond me," host Joe Scarborough says.

Huge deficits are already making bond investors nervous. Economists warn that could make it harder to respond to future ...

OpenSecrets Outside spending on 2024 federal elections has hit a record $4.5 billion, with more than half of that spending ...

Ohio State professors like me have watched in horror as the symbol of American scientific might has been thrown to, well, the DOGE.

The new blueprint shows that a vast array of education, health, housing and labor programs would be hit, including aid for ...

North Carolina lawmakers have increasingly shifted toward using federal dollars, rather than state dollars, to pay for ...

Republicans say the 'big beautiful bill' will reduce the deficit, but economists say making the tax cuts permanent will do ...

Budget writers are plunging ahead by assuming that federal money that might not be there is going to be there. It might not ...