Budget Battles
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The Healthiest — and Unhealthiest — US States
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Health Spending Hits Record High, Even With 1 Million Fewer Insured
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A White House Report Slams Pelosi’s Drug Plan. Experts Call Its Claims ‘Nonsense’
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Hospitals Sue to Protect Secret Prices
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How a Public Option Would Affect the Insurance Market
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Joe Biden Says Pete Buttigieg ‘Stole’ His Health Care Plan
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63% Say U.S. Health Care Has Huge Problems — and That’s an Improvement
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Is Trump's $28 Billion Bailout Paying Farmers Too Much?
By Michael RaineyThe Trump administration is spending $28 billion to bail out farmers hurt by the president’s trade war with China – a huge sum that some experts say overestimates the economic losses inflicted by the...
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New Trump Food Stamp Rule Will Cut 700,000 from Program
By Michael RaineyThe White House said Wednesday that it has finalized a rule that will tighten work requirements for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The new rule could result...
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Navy Awards Largest Shipbuilding Contract Ever
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. Navy awarded a contract Monday worth more than $22 billion to build nine new attack submarines. The agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat includes an option for a 10 th sub, which...
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On Congress’s To-Do List: Prevent a Shutdown in 18 Days
Congressional appropriators back from their Thanksgiving recess have just three weeks to hammer out details on dozens of policy differences over federal funding for fiscal year 2020, which started on...
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Chart of the Day: Record Low Poverty Rate
By Michael RaineyThe extensive array of government assistance programs — including Social Security, unemployment insurance, veterans’ benefits, nutritional aid, rental assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit —...
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Trump Scores a Win From NATO, but Fireworks Ahead
By Michael RaineyAhead of NATO’s 70th-anniversary meeting in London this week, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced last Thursday that the U.S. will contribute less to the alliance’s relatively small central...
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Congress Makes a Deal on 2020 Spending, but the Budget Battle Is Far from Over
By Michael RaineyLawmakers took a big step over the weekend toward reaching a spending deal for the 2020 fiscal year, though a major hurdle — funding for President Trump’s border wall — remains in place. On Saturday...
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States Boost Spending at Fastest Pace Since Great Recession
U.S. states increased spending in fiscal year 2019 at the fastest clip since the end of the Great Recession, according to a new report from the National Association of State Budget Officers. Total...
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Secret Service Spent $254K at Trump Properties in His First Five Months in Office
It’s a shocker, we know: Newly released documents raise fresh concerns about the extent to which President Trump is personally profiting from his public office, showing that the Secret Service spent...
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Public Investment Is the Key to Avoiding Economic Stagnation: Report
By Michael RaineyEconomic stagnation on a global scale is a growing threat, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The group’s November economic outlook...
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Congress Has Three Days to Avert a Government Shutdown
You may not have realized it with everything else going on , but we’re technically just a few days away from a government shutdown. Current funding for federal agencies expires after November 21 —...
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Trump Wants South Korea to Pay Up for Protection: Report
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump is demanding that South Korea pay billions of additional dollars for U.S. protection, according to a report Friday at CNN . South Korea is paying about $1 billion this year to cover...
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Cost of Wars Since 9/11: $6.4 Trillion and Rising
By Michael RaineyThe total cost of the wars fought since 9/11 is approaching $6.4 trillion, according to an annual report published Wednesday by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown...
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Fed Chief: Get the Deficit Under Control While the Economy Is Still Strong
By Michael RaineyFederal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress needs to get the deficit under control while the economy is still growing and the outlook remains positive. Failing to do so...
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Congress Plans Stopgap Spending Bill Through December 20
Mark December 20 on your calendar. Congress plans to pass a second stopgap spending bill to keep the government running through that date, House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey (D-NY) told...