Per capita caps would prevent federal spending from growing to pay for those new costs, Burns said. It would make federal spending lower and more predictable, but states would assume 100 percent ...

In fiscal 2023, the most recent year for which detailed financial information is available, Medicaid’s net cost was $894.2 ...

The average taxpayer’s piece of the $37-trillion federal debt is about $240,000, or six years of the median income.

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

For Medicaid expansion states, the government pays 90 percent. A per-beneficiary cap would fundamentally change Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement to one with strict limits on federal spending.

Wisconsin consistently receives fewer federal funds per capita than most other states. But federal spending cuts could have far-ranging impacts here in every corner of our state, where federal funds ...

The net debt of federal, state and territory governments is expected to blow out to more than $1.2 trillion over the next ...

Federal spending, in other words, magnifies the incumbent advantage and gives incumbents a few points on Election Day. We can see this in action. Consider the Associated Press article that ran the ...

Looking at per capita expenditures from the federal government and receipts paid to the federal government in West Virginia in 2022, the federal government paid out $21,478 per person in direct ...

To date, DOGE claims that it has saved the government about $180 billion by slashing the federal workforce, ending contracts, selling assets and cutting grant programs.