Democrats have always pledged to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare.
Helping the wealthy avoid taxes is such an infatuation that House Republicans even brought the United States to the brink of default trying ...
the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly raised in this Committ...
Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3 trillion lower than...
My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal situation...
And healthcare spending has gone up even more. Does that also relate to an aging population?
Your mention of can we agree to a debt to GDP level provokes me to remember my work with Chairman Enzi to find a safe debt to GDP level, a g...
Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it.
Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to...
Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax...
Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fair...
CBO's long-term budget projections back in 2012 were the last time that CBO showed debt declining as a share of GDP.
the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side.