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Congress just pushed the U.S. toward a debt crisis. The Fed can’t save us.
The odds of a federal debt crisis just got worse. On Thursday, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that threatens to leave the government with one big, ...
The US government could run out of money after Aug. 15 without debt ceiling action: BPC
A new projection of Washington's looming 'X date' — when the US government will be unable to pay its bills because of the ...
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings are a plea to Congress
In every major case involving federal statutes, the court made plain that it would hew narrowly to the language in those ...
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac boss urges Congress probe Fed’s Jerome Powell over ‘deceptive’ testimony on ‘Palace of Versailles’ $2.5B HQ
FHFA Director William Pulte demanded that Powell be probed by lawmakers and suggested he could even be fired by President ...
Opinion: Trump doesn't want democracy but a government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump
“He (King George) has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.” Trump did this when ...
US government withholding over $6 billion in school funding, research group says
President Donald Trump's administration is withholding previously approved funding to schools during what the White House ...
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Trump’s attempt to claw back funding already approved by Congress, explained
The House has approved President Trump’s request to claw back billions of dollars already appropriated for things like ...
A year after Loper Bright, Congress has failed to step up
Rules on everything from firearm bump stocks to environmental permitting are being invalidated or reopened, but Congress has ...