History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...

Illinois lawmakers grappling with uncertainty over Trump administration spending cuts included in the budget a flexible fund ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced this week he has joined another multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump ...

A federal budget shortfall nearly forced the U.S. Forest Service to close public toilets in the San Juan National Forest, but ...

The program, which covers low-income Americans of all ages, is now the country’s single largest insurer, covering more than 70 million people. The legislation approved by House Republicans, which is ...

The below charts and tables present a range of federal R&D data series, including federal research budgets by agency, character and discipline, and some national totals. Most data come from annual ...

Most of the charts and data in the below sections are available as image files and spreadsheets, though some older data are available as only PDF for now. Historical Trends in Federal R&D (1953 – ) : ...

Older, wealthier Americans would see the biggest lifetime benefit from the Republican budget bill, while younger generations ...

Zayn Malik, Sheryl Crow and more urge Congress to not cut SNAP and Medicaid in its budget bill, calling it "unacceptable and ...

Interest payments, Social Security and health care have driven most of the increase since February 2020, and there’s no will ...