Associated PressOctober 7, 2024
6min0
‘Debt would continue to grow faster than the economy under either candidates’ plans and in most scenarios would grow faster and higher than under current law.’
Tag: national debt
Associated PressOctober 7, 2024Associated PressMay 28, 2023
8min0
The deal represents a step back from economic calamity, but more hurdles loom.
Associated PressJanuary 13, 2023
10min0
A showdown is looming with the new Republican House majority.
Scott PowersJanuary 14, 2022
9min0
'Republicans and Democrats have fundamentally different priorities.'
Associated PressMay 5, 2021
6min911
Congress faces a July 31 deadline.
Associated PressMarch 14, 2021
8min640
COVID-19 war's spending now more than World War II's. So's death toll.
Jacob OglesDecember 11, 2019
7min992
Critics attacked appearances with Democrats, but Mayor says those show ability to work with others.
Joe HendersonNovember 30, 2017
6min369
While the debate continues in Washington about tax cuts, it’s worth a trip in the Way Back Machine to revisit how U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio felt about the national debt. To set the scene, Republicans and President Trump are pushing a tax cut plan that will add to the nearly $20 trillion deficit. Outgoing Federal Reserve […]
Guest AuthorApril 12, 20167min261
I am beginning to think Americans are tending to live more in the present than they do by thinking of the past or planning for the future. Every four years we get enmeshed in a national election that tends to raise the bar of conversation about where we want to be, usually, but this election […]
Bill RuftyMarch 8, 2016
4min280
A fourth two-year term in Congress is what U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, a Lakeland Republican, is wishing for. On Thursday, Ross, 56, made his official announcement for the post in the three counties of his 15th Congressional District after redistricting orders from the Florida Supreme Court, warning of terrorism and the national debt. “Our work is […]