Richard Stern joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the players, procedures, and policy options on the table for budget ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of ...

The Trump tax cuts are set to expire later this year, and that poses a real challenge for policymakers, businesses, and ...

This week, the Congressional Budget Office once again reduced its population projections for the U.S. for 2025-2055. Last ...

Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

The Biden administration’s sweeping federal student loan forgiveness plan will cost an estimated $400 billion over the next three decades, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO ...

The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to ...

Now that Donald Trump is back for a second presidential term, another big political shift will happen simultaneously happen ...

Though not confirmed by the Senate, Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to lead the budget office, has vowed to try to move power over spending from Congress to the executive branch — a battle ...

While the Trump administration intends to ax funding for initiatives it views as out of step with its priorities, it didn’t mean to blow up funding for a broader suite of programs.

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...