Congressional Budget Office

The measure would increase government spending by $395 million over the next decade, budget office says. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Healthcare

Bill to block Medicare experiment would cost $400 million

October 4, 2016 10:03 pm

The feds took in $26 billion more than the previous record for the same period. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Finance and Economy

Federal tax receipts through August hit record $2.9 trillion

Rudy Takala -

September 9, 2016 9:49 pm

CBO had forecast 24 million in the exchanges by this year, but just 11.1 million signed up as of March (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Healthcare

Report: Obamacare enrollment less than half projected

Ryan Lovelace -

August 28, 2016 8:19 pm

Economy

Debt to reach highest level since 1950 this year

Joseph Lawler -

August 23, 2016 6:03 pm

The annual shortfall would be $152 billion larger than the deficit for fiscal 2015 and the first increase in the deficit, relative to the U.S. economy, since 2009. (AP Photo)

Economy

Deficit expected to rise by one-third to $590 billion

Joseph Lawler -

August 23, 2016 6:00 pm

For families in the 26th-50th percentile of the wealth distribution, the wealth decline caused by the recession offset any gains seen from 1989-2007. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

How the Great Recession increased inequality

Jason Russell -

August 19, 2016 8:30 pm

National security fears and the presidential election have dominated the political discourse over the past year, but that uptick marks a sharp increase from the 2015 fiscal year, when the deficit fell to $439 billion. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

News

Budget office: Deficit jumps to $590 billion

Joel Gehrke -

August 5, 2016 9:29 pm

Here are four graphs that show just how doomed the federal budget is if Congress and the president don't do anything about it. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Why the federal budget is doomed, in 4 graphs

Jason Russell -

July 12, 2016 8:09 pm

Freedom Partners, a group that advocates free-market policies and has been linked to the billionaire brothers who run Koch Industries, estimated that the gross federal debt will be nearly a quarter higher in 2040 than the Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Economy

Koch-linked group argues debt is rising faster than feds estimate

Joseph Lawler -

July 12, 2016 7:45 pm

The record high for federal debt held by the public was set at 106 percent of output in 1945, after the run-up in defense spending for the military effort in World War II. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg, File)

Economy

Federal debt headed toward all-time record, budget office says

Joseph Lawler -

July 12, 2016 2:01 pm

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Bill to block Medicare experiment would cost $400 million

Federal tax receipts through August hit record $2.9 trillion

Report: Obamacare enrollment less than half projected

Debt to reach highest level since 1950 this year

Deficit expected to rise by one-third to $590 billion

How the Great Recession increased inequality

Budget office: Deficit jumps to $590 billion

Why the federal budget is doomed, in 4 graphs

Koch-linked group argues debt is rising faster than feds estimate

Federal debt headed toward all-time record, budget office says

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