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What the past can teach us about a post-Chevron America
Jul 12, 2024
The Supreme Court's decision overturning the Chevron deference is a step towards rolling back the power of the administrative state, the origins of which go back more than a century.
There’s a new entrant in the “bill scoring” game
Jul 4, 2024
The newly formed “Budget Lab” at Yale plans to focus on the long-term outcomes of proposed legislation.
Lawmakers managed to fix Social Security in the 1980s. But those fixes won't work a second time.
Jun 28, 2024
The Social Security program is on track to burn through its savings account by 2035 unless Congress changes the law before then. Social Security faced a similar funding crisis in the early 1980s.
Social Security cuts are inevitable by 2035 unless lawmakers act
Jun 27, 2024
Social Security has been known as “the third rail of American politics” since the early 1980s, with the idea that touching the program can prove deadly to a politician’s career.
Worry about foreign ownership of telecom companies has a long history in the U.S.
by
Henry Epp
Apr 24, 2024
It's part of an overall mistrust of foreign influence with deep roots in American history.
Child care gets a boost in the new federal spending law, but advocates say it isn't enough
Mar 27, 2024
They say programs designed to help low-income families are only reaching a fraction of those eligible.
Proposed appropriations bill would practically double the size of the Border Patrol
Mar 22, 2024
Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, so it's using the appropriations bill to bulk up the Department of Homeland Security.
For public good, not for profit.
Congressional crackdown on TikTok raises logistical and legal questions
Mar 14, 2024
Efforts to force parent company ByteDance to either divest or sell off the app would likely meet resistance from China.
What lawmakers slipped into the $460 billion spending package
Mar 12, 2024
Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.
How the budget fight in Congress threatens federal wildland firefighters' pay
Feb 21, 2024
Federal firefighters make as little as $15 an hour. A permanent boost has bipartisan support, but it’s tied up in Congress' budget fight.