President Trump should combine extending tax cuts with fixing Social Security
President Trump has linked two budget items, and that may be a good idea. Trump wants to extend his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs ...
House GOP panel passes budget blueprint with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and steep spending reductions
The Republican-led Budget Committee approved a sweeping proposal to unlock Trump's agenda, sending it to the full House.
The New Republican Budget Plan Is Unserious
Serious problems should be met with serious solutions. We have serious problems, namely a fast-growing debt and a need to extend some tax cuts in an ...
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To pay for tax cuts, the GOP’s budget plan goes full Scrooge
Republican politicians plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich. That might sound like a stale, Scroogey stereotype. But it’s not an exaggeration: It’s ...
Senate Holds Marathon Session To Advance GOP Budget Plan
Republicans pressed forward despite President Donald Trump's endorsement of a competing House proposal and questions about ...
Big spending plans plus both tax cuts and increases. Takeaways from Gov. Tony Evers' new budget
Gov. Tony Evers unveiled an increase in income taxes for the wealthiest Wisconsinites while decreasing taxes for middle- and ...
US budget debate foreshadows political battles to come. Will it help or hurt Californians?
The budgets are setting up a process that would probably mean big cuts in social programs, notably Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California. The Senate budget Friday did not deal with most domestic ...
Senate adopts fallback budget in case Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ falters
Now the onus is on House Republicans to build enough support to advance their own party-line plan, or face pressure to back ...