The Berkeley City Council’s refusal to make budget cuts is a big mistake. Berkeley’s per capita spending is more than 30% ...

The U.S. tax and spending bill passed on July 3 is expected to add more than $3 trillion to the country’s deficit over the ...

The republic of Chechnya’s financial dependence on the Russian federal government remains the highest in the country, with ...

Economist Martin Cantor reflects on four decades of efforts to preserve the SALT deduction and how its loss still threatens Long Island’s middle class.

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

Wisconsin Policy Forum Wisconsin consistently receives fewer federal funds per capita than most other states. But federal ...

Republicans have proposed the per capita cap to help cut at least $2 trillion in spending to offset tax breaks and other priorities. Medicaid, which costs the government over $800 billion annually ...

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.

If states maintain their expansion spending and coverage, a per capita cap on the expansion population could shift $246 billion in costs to states over the next 10 years.

While just about every D.C. government agency will feel the brunt of the mayor’s order, there are some exemptions. Building projects like the $500 million plan to remodel Capital One Arena are ...

Elon Musk said Thursday that the U.S. DOGE Service he is overseeing aims to cut $1 trillion in federal spending per year — an amount he said won’t harm services even though it represents about ...