President Obama is establishing a reputation for misrepresenting his own policies. He promoted his "stimulus" bill as an immediate, anti-recessionary cash infusion, even though most spending won't ...

A week after muscling through possibly the most expensive spending bill in America history, President Obama has called on Congress to support fiscal discipline. Specifically, he has proposed a ...

With the start of the new Congress on Thursday, Democrats officially took over the House of Representatives. Right off the bat, the party began fighting internally over the basics of its budget ...

In last year’s budget deal, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, Republican negotiators insisted on the inclusion of an 18-month-long provision called Administrative Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO), intended to rein ...

Pay-as-you-go rules could be used to combat congressional Republican attempts to cut taxes for the wealthy that add to the federal deficit and debt. These rules provide opportunities for defeating or ...

If you rely on Medicare (or know someone who does) recent changes in Washington could soon affect your access to care. While the headlines may sound like speculation, the truth is more straightforward ...

President Barack Obama is hailing pay-as-you-go budget legislation he signed Friday night as one in a series of crucial steps needed to snap Washington out of a destructive pattern of overspending.

Democrats late last week announced they were changing a bunch of rules for this newly elected House of Representatives. The rule changes involved automatically raising the debt ceiling when a new ...

If you are a Medicare recipient or caregiver, you may soon feel the ripple effects of a federal budget maneuver you did not vote for. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned that Donald Trump ...