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CBO projects U.S. debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts

The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump

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Author: Josh Boak

US budget deficit to hit $1.9 trillion in 2025: CBO

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected on Friday that the federal budget deficit would hit $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2025. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper estimated that federal spen…

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Author: Aris Folley

US Set to Exceed World War II Debt Levels by 2029, CBO Projects

The US government is on track to surpass record debt levels set after World War II in just four years, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Friday — even as it lowered somewhat its deficit projections for the next decade.

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Author: Jarrell Dillard

GOP-led immigration bill on verge of Senate passage after Democrats join with Republicans in key vote

A GOP-led bill to require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes is on the verge of passage in the Senate after a significant number of Democrats joined with Republicans to advance the measure in a critical vote on Friday.

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Author: Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer

U.S. Faces Record Debt Levels as Republicans Plan Tax Cuts

The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that annual deficits will top $21 trillion over the next decade.

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Author: Alan Rappeport

Gambling won in Texas House speaker race. That helps explain this curious Trump move

Miriam Adelson of the Dallas Mavericks and Sands and TIlman Fertitta of the Houston Rockets and the Golden Nugget want to bring online betting and casinos to Texas. | Opinion

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Author: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Ron DeSantis picks Florida attorney general to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

Ashley Moody, Trump loyalist with conservative track record, will replace president-elect’s secretary of state pick

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Author: Lauren Aratani

Opinion | Republicans in North Carolina Are Treading a Terrifying Path

They’re trying to overturn a fair election. Gee, who gave them that idea?

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Author: Frank Bruni

Path forward on health care package causing heartburn

The chance that a bipartisan health care package could be broken up for cost savings for the House GOP’s reconciliation bill has the potential to cause a partisan rift.

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Author: Ben Leonard

Top Senate Intel Democrat ‘flabbergasted’ by removal of GOP House Intelligence chair

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Thursday said he was “flabbergasted” by the decision to remove Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio) as the Republican chairman o…

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Author: Alexander Bolton

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