3+ hour, 29+ min ago  (606+ words) A report from a government watchdog organization released Thursday highlights inaccurate projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The report released by Open the Books spotlights decades of CBO projections and finds that while routine estimates were normally reliable, projections…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago  (554+ words) A report from a government watchdog organization released Thursday highlights inaccurate projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The report notes that CBO's miscalculations have continued to grow over the years. From 1983 to 2024, the average error in CBO projections was…...

14+ hour, 54+ min ago  (361+ words) House appropriators have pushed back plans to mark up a fiscal 2027 Defense spending bill by about a month because of uncertainty over how to finance a massive surge in Pentagon funding sought by the Trump administration, according to sources familiar…...

1+ day, 20+ min ago  (653+ words) Rep. Lee Filer writes, "Let's be honest with the people of Wyoming if they truly believed the budget was irresponsible, why did they vote for it? You don't get to claim the mantle of 'most conservative' while supporting a budget…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (593+ words) The president's fiscal 2027 budget is out, and I have two reactions. The first will sound familiar: Like so many budgets before it, this is not a serious effort to put America's government on a sustainable path. The second is more…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (347+ words) (The Center Square) " A plan for mid-April budget negotiations is still up in the air after legislators failed to agree on a budget during the regular session. Senate President Ben Albritton said in a memo to senators Wednesday that there…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (679+ words) Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is alleged to have ordered an audit of the local daily newspaper's coverage of his administration, though he denies the charge in the face of emails suggesting he did. The Kansas City Star itself broke the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (823+ words) As the Alabama Legislature enters its final days of the 2026 regular session, budget leaders say lawmakers are taking a cautious approach'holding spending growth under 1% and prioritizing long-term stability over short-term gains despite strong state revenues. State Rep. Rex Reynolds (R-Huntsville),…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (273+ words) Utah stands to lose more than $100 million in annual federal health care funding " not because of fraud or abuse, but because of a misunderstanding. More than a decade ago, Medicaid was not paying enough to cover the actual cost of…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (177+ words) The Northeast, and New York City in particular, are going Marxist-Communist. Democrats will keep voting for the ideology despite it's obvious failures. The mayor wants to tax most people with a home, steal 50% of a dead person's wealth, tax those…...