Browsing: Congressional Budget Office
Despite concerns from debt hawks, the U.S. government is continuing to borrow at pace: For the fiscal year of 2026…
DHS wants to build AI smart glasses using facial recognition tech ICE ‘could be’ using on Americans
ICE agents in at least six states have been spotted wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses during enforcement operations since the…
Director of the CBO—known for gloomy national debt data—is optimistic that a crisis will be avoided
Dr Phillip Swagel is an optimist, both by nature and when he looks at the U.S. economy.This fact is perhaps…
CBO: Treasury may need to borrow extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling
When the Supreme Court ruled late last month that the majority of tariffs implemented by the second Trump administration in…
Caring for an entire population is expensive—caring for an aging population even more so. This is the conundrum facing the…
‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years
The United States is on a collision course with its own history, and about to break fiscal records in the…
American taxpayers spent half a billion dollars deploying federal troops to U.S. cities in 2025
A new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), released Jan. 28, provides the first comprehensive accounting of the federal…
A comprehensive new report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) portrays a stark transformation of the American economy over…
More Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO predicts—with immigrants the only source of growth
For the first time in modern history, the United States is on the brink of losing its most basic engine…
Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new projections showing that recent rollbacks of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy…












