Budget Battles
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Trump’s Risky Plan to Get $8 Billion for His Wall
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Trump to Sign Border Deal — and Declare a National Emergency, Too
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Trump Likely to Sign Border Deal, Avert Another Shutdown
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Shutdown Makes a Bad Situation Worse at the IRS
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Trump’s ‘Not Happy’ with the Border Deal. Why He’ll Probably Sign It Anyway.
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Lawmakers Scramble to Avert Another Government Shutdown
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Is Trump ‘Trapped’ on the Border Wall Deal?
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Trump on the $22 Trillion National Debt: 'Growth Will Straighten It Out'
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump was asked at his wide-ranging press conference Friday about the roughly $2 trillion increase in public debt during the first two years of his administration: Question: Let me also ask...
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The Great Debt Debate: How Dangerous Is It?
By Michael RaineyMIT economist Olivier Blanchard caused a stir in fiscal circles last month with an academic paper suggesting that current levels of public debt may be less worrisome than many experts think (see our...
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Goldman Sachs Projects Deficit Will Top $1 Trillion Next Year
The Congressional Budget Office projected last month that the federal budget deficit for this year would be about $900 billion , up 15 percent from last year but about $84 billion less than it had...
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Democrats Unveil Their ‘Green New Deal.’ Here’s What It Does – and Doesn’t Do
By Michael RaineyRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) released their much-anticipated proposal for a Green New Deal Thursday. Framed as a response to the challenges of global warming, the 14...
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Foreign Ownership of US Debt Continues to Decline
By Michael RaineyForeign demand for U.S. government debt has been declining in recent years but domestic investors have picked up the slack, The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Kruger and Kate Davidson reported...
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SOTU 2019: 3 Important Things Trump Said, and 1 Big Thing He Didn’t
President Trump’s 82-minute-long State of the Union address Tuesday night put a uniquely Trumpian spin on the usual recipe for the address: a healthy helping of rah-rah patriotism and legislative...
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Is It Time to Start Selling 100-Year Bonds?
By Michael RaineyWith the U.S. facing a $12 trillion deficit over the next decade, the Treasury Department is exploring ways to maintain robust demand for American debt. One option being considered is the sale of “...
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‘Greatest Threat’ to the US? Two Top Democratic Economists Aren’t So Worried About the Debt
By Michael RaineyStarbucks founder Howard Schultz told “60 Minutes” Sunday that he is considering a run for president in 2020, possibly as a “centrist independent,” and one of his top issues is the growing national...
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Deficit Rising, but Won’t Hit $1 Trillion Until 2022, CBO Projects
By Michael RaineyIn new budget and economic projections released Monday , the Congressional Budget Office said annual deficits are expected to rise above $1 trillion in 2022, two years later than previous estimates,...
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Already Shifting the Debate on Taxes and Deficits
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, has wasted no time in making waves in Congress, emerging as a focal point for the national press — and social media powerhouse...
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Visualizing the ‘Great Decoupling’
By Michael RaineyThe Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell asked economist and data visualization specialist Jonathan Schwabish of the Urban Institute to create a chart that shows how unusual the large and growing...
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As Deficit Soars, Trump Advisers Focus on Discretionary Spending Cuts
National Security Adviser John Bolton, speaking Wednesday at an event hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Society in Washington, warned that the national debt is a societal threat with security...
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Trump Says He'll Start Paying Down the Debt. Here’s Why That’s Not Likely
By Michael RaineyIn a somewhat surprising statement on fiscal policy, President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. will start reducing its more than $21 trillion national debt. "We're going to start paying down debt...
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Who Owns US Debt?
By The Fiscal Times StaffAt Bloomberg , bond strategist David Ader suggests that, while there are plenty of threats that could drive interest rates higher, the idea that foreigners are pulling back from U.S. debt isn’t one...
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US Treasury to Borrow More Than $1.3 Trillion in 2018
By Michael RaineyThe U.S. Treasury said Monday it expects to issue about $425 billion in debt this quarter, raising its 2018 borrowing to more than $1.3 trillion, a 145 percent increase from the $546 billion issued...
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