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Act of the Oireachtas No. 39 of 2012
The national debt rose substantially during President Biden’s term: headline Treasury-style totals commonly cited put gross federal debt from about $27.8 trillion at inauguration (Jan 20, 2021) to rou...
appears stalled because a convergence of looming funding deadlines, internal party fights over high‑stakes bills, procedural bottlenecks in both chambers, and electoral incentives discourage compromis...
The impasse blocking full‑year appropriations is driven first by competing topline philosophies— generally trim spending toward while (and many Democrats) favor higher, bipartisan levels—and second by...
The 2025 spending bill largely , reflecting statutory caps set by the Fiscal Responsibility Act and congressional choices to use a full-year continuing resolution. The topline for FY2025 is about in b...
The 2025 funding impasse unfolded in two distinct phases: intense spring brinkmanship around a March 14 funding deadline and a later, broader shutdown beginning October 1 that produced repeated Senate...
On January 1–2, 2025 the statutory federal debt limit was reinstated at roughly $36.1 trillion, matching the government’s outstanding debt at the end of the suspension period (debt subject to the limi...
Congress faces a compressed window to finish major budget work before the 2026 plan year: FY2026 funding must be set by the Sept. 30 fiscal-year deadline, and House and Senate calendars show large dis...
Democratic FY2025 proposals as reflected in the budget resolutions and related analyses aim to shift the budgetary debate toward preserving or modestly raising discretionary priorities while targeting...
Defense spending was a central and divisive factor in 2024 congressional budget fights, anchored by statutory caps and large topline numbers that forced tradeoffs between security and domestic priorit...
The various analyses agree that the 2025 shutdown negotiations centered on the top congressional leaders in each chamber, with repeatedly identified as principal players, alongside a cohort of Senate ...
Democrats accepted a mix of procedural and substantive tradeoffs in the 2024 continuing resolution: they agreed to spending limits stemming from the Fiscal Responsibility Act, consented to one-year ex...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries consistently and forcefully opposed Republican efforts to attach partisan policy riders to continuing resolutions, framing such attempts as an attack on healthcar...