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The process of managing the federal budget, including financing and spending.
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...
Several authors of Project 2025 now occupy senior roles in the federal government: Russell Vought is serving as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brendan Carr is leading the Federal Com...
Passing a continuing resolution (CR) instead of final appropriations keeps the government operating by extending prior funding levels for a set time, but it freezes priorities, creates uncertainty for...
trust‑fund bonds forces to convert intragovernmental IOUs into cash outlays that must be financed by taxes, cuts, or new borrowing; in practice that often raises publicly held Treasury debt even while...
The most widely cited official U.S. population estimate for 2024 is about 340 million people, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual population estimates that prompted headlines noting the nation “s...
Federal funding for the U.S. public television system is commonly reported in the mid‑teens of overall revenue: roughly 15 percent of public television’s aggregate budget is supported by federal dolla...
Using CBO and CRFB summaries of the FY2025 outlook, Social Security and Medicare together account for roughly 39 percent of federal outlays in FY2025 — an estimate derived by comparing their share of ...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is financed primarily as a federally funded entitlement: the federal government pays 100 percent of benefit costs under an open‑ended, mandatory sp...