Budget and Deficit

Investors, domestic and foreign, have been willing to buy U.S. debt so far, but there are signs of change.

The federal government owns or leases thousands of buildings, and a shockingly large percentage of them are sitting empty.  

States have a rainy day fund to call on in times of emergency, Washington needs a similar option. 

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.