Helping the wealthy avoid taxes is such an infatuation that House Republicans even brought the United States to the brin...
Democrats have always pledged to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare.
So, let me just to put this into context, take a look at this graphic here, which shows from 1994 to 2054, how revenue a...
My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal situa...
Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated roun...
CBO's long-term budget projections back in 2012 were the last time that CBO showed debt declining as a share of GDP.
Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3...
Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you c...
Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than...
Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I...
the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly ra...
And healthcare spending has gone up even more. Does that also relate to an aging population?
the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side.
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 de...
