Budget and Deficit

Governors create a fiscal record that can help voters decide who might make the most fiscally responsible president.

Shutdowns tend to be a political loser for Republicans—and the country. Here’s why.

It might be easier to reach a government-funding agreement had the government not spent so much over the past few years, and had fraud and waste been much lower.

Biden wants credit for reducing the federal deficit even as his big spending policies are increasing the deficit.

In 2011 Congress created a "budget sequester" mechanism to force it to control spending. The new Fiscal Responsibility Act has, surprisingly, also included a budget sequester.

Progressives are once again scavenging for old laws they claim would allow the president to do what he wants, in this case the 14th Amendment.

The EPA is handing out taxpayer dollars to groups to help them train environmental justice groups to ask for even more taxpayer dollars.

There are a number of candidates for the title of "Worst Tax Increases" in Biden's new tax proposals. Here's my two worst options.

Modern Monetary Theory has been put to the test thanks to President Biden and the Democrats. How's that working for us?

The federal government estimates that 7.5 percent of spending on traditional Medicare in 2022 was for “improper payments,” which includes both fraud and errors in billing. For Medicaid, it was 15.6 percent.