Tag: Fiscal Policy

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's tax reform plan would amount to either a $4.4 trillion or a $5.9 trillion tax cut, according to a new analysis. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Analysis: Trump’s plan would cut taxes up to $5.9 trillion

Joseph Lawler · September 19, 2016 1:56 pm

Changes include scaled-back standard deductions and some meant to make the plan less costly to the Treasury. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump overhauls tax plan, promising millions of new jobs

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2016 3:52 pm

Some of the ideas endorsed by the report are among the measures that members of Congress from both parties have weighed this summer. (AP Photo)

Report: Federal budget doesn’t respond to economy, world affairs or voters

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2016 4:01 am

Harvard professor Larry Summers warned that Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's optimism one day might be viewed the same way that Ben Bernanke's statements downplaying the subprime crisis were, and he concluded in an op-ed that "the Fed's complacency about its current toolbox is unwarranted." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Economists fear U.S. not prepared to fight off a recession

Joseph Lawler · September 10, 2016 4:01 am

Coats, who chairs the Joint Economic Committee, said in a Thursday hearing that the BRAC program is an "extraordinary success in terms of forcing action" by Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senator borrows idea from DoD to cut federal spending

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2016 3:55 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)

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

Joseph Lawler · August 23, 2016 6:00 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that, with interest rates low, the U.S. should borrow money to spend on infrastructure rather than lowering the $14 trillion federal debt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump reverses on federal debt: ‘This is the time to borrow’

Joseph Lawler · August 11, 2016 12:47 pm

The federal deficit is on pace to post its first increase for a full fiscal year since 2011. (iStock photo)

Deficit rises to $514 billion through July

Joseph Lawler · August 10, 2016 6:45 pm

By the end of Hillary Clinton's first term in office, U.S. economic output would be 1.7 percent higher than it would be under current law if her plans were implemented as they're spelled out on paper. (AP Photo)

Analysis: Clinton tax-and-spend economic plan would boost growth

Joseph Lawler · July 29, 2016 4:07 pm

The group's tentative embrace of the measure, written by retiring Wisconsin Republican Rep. Reid Ribble, is particularly noteworthy because the bill would raise taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chamber lays down a marker on Social Security reform

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2016 4:01 am

The effort, led by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi and bipartisan interlocutors, is not an attempt to reach a grand bargain or solve any of the fiscal problems that face the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Return to supercommittee mulled in Senate

Joseph Lawler · July 17, 2016 4:01 am

The federal budget deficit will be $600 billion for fiscal year 2016, the White House Office of Management said Friday in its update to the president's budget documents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House sees $600 billion budget deficit in FY 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 15, 2016 2:56 pm