House Republicans are putting cuts to Medicaid at the top of their list of budget cuts to help pay for their wide-ranging agenda that spans tax cuts, energy production and border security. Republicans ...

Trump and his allies have little choice but to market large Medicaid savings as only harmless belt-tightening and reducing waste. Don't believe them.

An assessment of state-level inflows and outflows of federal funds finds red states are being propped up by blue states.

House Republicans introduced a proposal seeking to cut Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Healthcare ...

In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up ...

Experts on national defense and national security almost universally agree that foreign aid stabilizes countries and keeps people alive and therefore is very effective in increasing U.S. national ...

The Trump administration’s many attempts over the past couple of weeks to halt federal spending have met mostly with approval from Republicans on Capitol Hill and outrage from Democrats.

Congressional Republicans may seek to drastically cut Medicaid by imposing per capita caps, which would place a hard cap on per-person federal Medicaid spending. At a time when people across ...

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s ...

It is hard to resist trolling Illinois, especially Chicago. I’ve done so myself on occasion. After all, Chicago is a city with too many governance flaws to list in a single column. But they also enjoy ...

An affordable-housing deal that uses federal LIHTC funding is much more likely to achieve other key sources of financing for ...

Per capita income in ... spent in their county each year than they pay in taxes. On top of that, they pay only 66.6 cents for ...