The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2036, and once again, CBO and the media are blaming the nation’s deficit problem on Republican tax cuts.

Republicans say it’s long past time for millions of people to pay down their overdue student debt — a message they are trying to send to Americans already stressed about the cost of food, health care ...

WASHINGTON - Senate leaders announced an agreement Thursday to extend the government’s borrowing authority into December, temporarily averting an unprecedented federal default that experts say would ...

The massive package of tax cuts House Republicans passed in May is expected to increase the U.S. debt by trillions of dollars — a sum that threatens to torpedo the legislation as the Senate starts to ...

A discussion of the “elephant not in the room,” in the words of one of the moderators of last Wednesday’s Republican presidential candidate debate, didn’t come until about one hour into the jousting.

Multiple reports say GOP leaders are furious after Trump - who was due to back a Republican debt deal - apparently changed his mind on the fly. Peter Baker, Robert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Ed Charbonneau, R-Valparaiso, backs his medical debt help bill on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla ...

Legislation promoting charity care and payment plans for Hoosier health care patients – plus, protecting their paychecks and homes from debt collectors – advanced from Indiana’s Senate on Thursday, in ...