Budgets and Deficits

Fairness & Justice

Next, eliminate the mortgage interest deduction

James Rogan · June 13, 2025 6:00 am

Time to deliver on a better ‘big, beautiful bill’ for Trump

Rick Scott · June 13, 2025 6:00 am

Scott Bessent is winning Treasury’s debt ceiling race against time

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 13, 2025 4:50 am

A winter storm on Jan. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C., shut down federal offices and schools as Congress certified the 2024 presidential election results Monday, four years after a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to halt the certification of the 2020 election results.

Courage, Strength & Optimism

On reconciliation, the Senate can make or break the deficit

James Rogan · June 12, 2025 6:00 am

Did Tea Partiers ever actually mean it?

Dan Hannan · June 6, 2025 5:25 am

Money printing $100 banknotes illustration.

CBO confirms one big, beautiful bill is a $1.2 trillion spending cut

Washington Examiner · June 6, 2025 12:01 am

‘Reconciliation’ tears Trump and Musk apart

W. James Antle III · June 5, 2025 7:50 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the rain after arriving on Air Force One

Trump tariffs would net $2.8 trillion over next decade, CBO says

Zach Halaschak · June 4, 2025 12:41 pm

President Donald Trump, right, is joined by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he arrives for a meeting with the House Republican Conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington.

CBO says Republican megabill will add $2.4 trillion to deficit

Zach Halaschak · June 4, 2025 10:05 am

Elon Musk arrives to speak at an indoor presidential inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

Elon Musk exit part of GOP tradition on spending failure

W. James Antle III · June 3, 2025 6:00 am

Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin questions Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Clash over deficits threatens Senate passage of GOP tax bill

Zach Halaschak · June 3, 2025 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Ron Johnson’s demand for a return to pre-pandemic spending levels is a nonstarter

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 30, 2025 10:28 am