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December 1, 2025 The Boston Globe

Trump Promised to Reduce the Federal Budget Deficit. It’s Not Going So Well.

November 20, 2025 The Dispatch

Has the 1974 Budget Act Outlived Its Purpose?

November 14, 2025 The Washington Post

Opinion: A Great Nation Is Reduced to Fanciful Hoping

November 13, 2025 Fortune

Your Political Polarization Is the Reason for Our $38 Trillion National Debt, Top Economist Says: ‘It’s Deeply Debilitating’ for ‘Consensus and Stability and Productive Policy Results’

November 13, 2025 Fortune

DC Diplomat Feels ‘Like Paul Revere’ About the $38 Trillion National Debt: ‘The Crisis Is Coming!’

November 13, 2025 Yahoo! Finance

‘We Are Guilty of Spending Our Rainy-Day Fund in Sunny Weather’: Top Economists, Historians Unite to Urge Action on $38 Trillion National Debt

November 12, 2025 Washington Monthly

Congress Has Bankrupted America’s Future

November 11, 2025 Fortune

Goldman CEO David Solomon Warns ‘There Will Be a Reckoning’ Around the $38 Trillion National Debt

November 1, 2025 Axios

Trump Shutdown Workarounds Test a 150-Year-Old Law

October 31, 2025 The Center Square

Association Says Housing Aid to Continue Through December

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