Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towar ...

Transparency is certainly not a panacea for solving health care cost growth, and may turn out to have a limited effect on its own. But more transparency is an important step for facilitating many new ...

On January 14, the House passed a bipartisan spending package that would provide full-year Financial Services and General Government and National Security and State Department appropriations by a vote ...

The Trump Great Healthcare Plan calls for funding Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs) under the ACA. Funding CSRs would reinstate payments to health insurance companies to cover their cost, ending “ silver ...

Congress has not passed all 12 appropriations bills since March 2024 and has largely been operating under CRs – which essentially extend past funding – since then. In November 2025, following the ...

At about the size of the entire U.S. economy, the national debt is on track to exceed its post-World War II record of 106% within the next three years. The 3% target would help to stabilize the debt ...

The United States borrowed $602 billion in the first three months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $145 billion in the month of December, according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement f ...

The Problem Solvers Caucus (PSC) announced its Fiscal Stability Framework last week, which sounds the alarm about the national debt, endorses two bipartisan fiscal commission bills, and urges the ...