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Instead of defending budget bill, GOP touts one that doesn’t exist
That’s the strategy Republican politicians have adopted in hopes of selling their regressive, unpopular budget bill to voters ...
Reconciliation and rescissions roil Congress
Congress is struggling to complete action on President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” known as the fiscal 2025 ...
What The Senate Budget Bill Would Mean For Older Adults
The Senate’s draft budget bill would cut Medicaid for older adults more deeply than the House version. It would scrap a Biden ...
Democrat-controlled budget office wrongly analyzed Trump's big bill, missed record savings, White House says
White House says the CBO’s analysis is wrong because it assumes that Republicans in Congress will fail to extend Trump’s 2017 ...
Budget office ignores rhetoric, says GOP megabill would add $3.4 trillion to the debt
The more Republicans insist that their far-right legislation would shrink the deficit, the more the CBO's arithmetic points ...
‘Nonpartisan’ Congressional Budget Office Not So Nonpartisan After All, Report Shows
The supposedly “nonpartisan” Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides Congress with cost estimates for its policy ...
Republicans challenge 'irrelevant' budget office as it critiques Trump's 'beautiful bill'
As Senate takes up Trump's "big, beautiful bill," many GOP members dismiss the Congressional Budget Office's deficit ...
How Trump’s big bill will affect taxes, the deficit and health care, according to the budget office
President Donald Trump’s big bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion but also increase deficits ...
Latest budget draft in Congress would put some Colorado public lands up for sale
Congress has revived a proposal to sell Western public lands to minimize increases to the deficit in the proposed budget bill — and this time, federal land in Colorado would not be left out.
'One Big Beautiful Bill' boosts highest earners most, Congressional Budget Office says
The Congressional Budget Office says highest earners will benefit most from the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill." Here's ...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said tariffs would reduce the purchasing power of households overall.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period while shrinking the economy, raising the inflation rate and reducing the ...