Democrats Move to Avert Fiscal Crisis, Separating Debt and Spending Bills
The House was set to move on Wednesday on a bill to increase the debt limit, while the Senate prepared a separate spending [...]
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Congress Moves to Increase Pentagon Budget, Defying Biden and Liberals
More than a dozen Democrats on a key panel broke ranks to endorse a $24 billion increase to military spending above what President [...]
The White House projects that inflation and economic growth will rise this year.
By Jim Tankersley The Biden administration on Friday said it expected economic growth and inflation to both reach their highest levels this year [...]
Opinion | The Radical Modesty of Biden’s Budget
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Many reports about the Biden administration’s budget proposal, released Friday, convey the sense that it’s huge. President Biden, [...]
A Look at What’s Inside Biden’s $6 Trillion Budget Request
President Biden’s funding request to Congress lays out his economic ambitions, with proposals for significant new spending in areas like infrastructure, education and [...]
Opinion | The Many Faces of Post-Trump Stress Disorder
It seemed like everything was calming down, until it wasn’t. By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion [...]
House Votes to Avert Deep Medicare Cuts to Pay for $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
The measure is likely to become the subject of negotiations later in the year over government spending and debt. By Emily Cochrane and [...]
Trump Tried to End Federal Arts Funding. Instead, It Grew.
When Donald Trump became the first president to make a formal proposal to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the future looked [...]
Opinion | Four Rules That Should Guide Bidenomics
Here we go again. For the second time in 12 years a newly elected Democratic president is inheriting an economy in deep distress. [...]
Justice Dept. Threatens to Withhold Federal Funds From N.Y., Seattle and Portland
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday escalated the Trump administration’s attacks on Democratic-led cities by threatening to withhold federal funding [...]