From the column: "There’s no reason to believe a federal work requirement will succeed where ... state experiments have failed." ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) caused health insurance premiums to soar and nearly collapsed the market, prompting the Biden ...

The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress does not ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the “visa integrity fee” would bring in more than $27 billion over a decade ...

What’s especially troubling is the way the multiple reached its current heights. The main driver wasn’t what matters most: ...

Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo almost got themselves crosswise with the great majority of Idahoans by supporting a MAGA effort to sell public lands as part of the BBBB deliberations. When they saw ...

The CBO says Trump's megabill will decrease resources "for households toward the bottom" of the income scale and increase for households "toward the top." ...

The CBO reports recent laws cut Medicaid and SNAP for low-income families while giving tax breaks to the wealthy, widening ...

A new CBO report reveals how Trump’s tax law benefits the richest Americans while leaving poorer Americans with less ...

SNAP in 2024 served an average of 41.7 million people monthly, or 12.3% of the U.S. population, according to the USDA.

Using the CBO score, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget projects that the policies in the bill will also add $4.1 trillion to the national debt over the same time period, when ...