Budget Battles
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Increasing Number of Americans Delay Medical Care Due to Cost: Gallup
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Congress Really Wants to Get Something Done on Drug Prices. It May Fail Anyway
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Surprise Deal to Protect Patients From Surprise Medical Bills
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Obamacare Back at the Supreme Court — With Billions for Insurers on the Line
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The Rising Tide of Health Care Costs
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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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$738 Billion Defense Bill Authorizes Space Force and New Benefits for Federal Workers
By Michael RaineyIt looks like Space Force has earned its wings. The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees announced late Monday an agreement on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which...
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The Terrible Cost of the War in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan is the longest armed conflict in U.S. history, and throughout the 18 years of fighting, U.S. officials have publicly said they were making progress. Yet a new investigative...
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The Fiscal Challenge for the Next Recession
The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2019 was nearly $1 trillion. “In the next downturn, don’t be surprised if this number hits $2 trillion,” writes Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal’s...
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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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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...
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Verma Attacks Critics of Medicaid Work Requirement, Pushes for Tighter Eligibility
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsSeema Verma, the Trump administration’s top Medicaid official, Tuesday sharply attacked critics of her plan to force some Medicaid enrollees to work, a policy that led to thousands of people losing...
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Elizabeth Warren Says Americans Will Spend $11 Trillion on Health Care. Is That True?
By Michael RaineyElizabeth Warren says that Americans will spend “about $11 trillion on insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and uncovered medical expenses” over the next 10 years if the current health care system...
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