The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its January 2025 budget and economic outlook, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of the state’s limited water supply to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him the money to put out his fires, he’s got problems.”
George Will, an anti-Trump columnist for The Washington Post, wrote a scathing assessment of President Biden's actions as president as he prepares to leave office.
Extending the tax law that’s set to expire would add $4.6 trillion to the national debt — so some GOP lawmakers want to change the rules.
The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump.
With the clock is ticking on the Social Security Trust Fund, Reps. George Latimer and Mike Lawler say more time is needed to study the options.
The Navy's 2025 plan would cost 46 percent more each year—when adjusted to take out inflation—than the average amount dedicated yearly over the past five years, the CBO said. The total shipbuilding costs would cost $40 billion annually over the next 30 years in today's money, coming in at 17 percent more than the Navy estimates.
Donald Trump will take the oath of office in the midst of a growing feud among congressional Republicans over how to deliver on his policy agenda.
The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion. That will be piled on to a national debt that currently exceeds $36 trillion.
The Navy's plan for its future fleet would require $1 trillion and a drastic increase in productivity at the nation's shipyards.
President Donald Trump has a great opportunity to permanently fix the broken federal student loan system if his administration moves swiftly.
Republicans are hunting for ways to pay for President Trump’s expensive plans while avoiding a freakout on Wall Street.