Budget and Spending

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Federal spending has grown rapidly over the last decade, leading to substantial budget deficits that have crippled the economy and financially harmed Americans.

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The Road to Inflation: How an Unprecedented Federal Spending Spree Created Economic Turmoil

Sep 21, 2023 Over an hour read

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BACKGROUNDER

Funding Leftism: The Biden’s Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

Apr 18, 2024 30 min read

Author

David Ditch

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Commentary

Extending Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Would Be Costly, Ineffective Edmund F. Haislmaier

Jul 29, 2022 5 min read

Commentary

8 Things New COVID-19 Corporate Bailout Bill Gets Wrong Richard Stern

May 19, 2022 5 min read

Commentary

How Universal Pre-K and Child Care Would Limit Families’ Child Care Options John Schoof

Dec 3, 2021 4 min read

Commentary

9 Examples That Show Why Democrats’ Revised Spending Bill Is Still Awful David Ditch

Nov 2, 2021 6 min read

Commentary

What’s in Democrats’ $1.75 Trillion Spending Bill

Nov 1, 2021 36 min read

Commentary

Stop the housing bailout before it undoes all of us J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

May 5, 2008 3 min read

Commentary

Halt the bailout express J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

Apr 14, 2008 3 min read

Experts on Budget and Spending

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Rachel Greszler

Senior Research Fellow, Roe Institute

Parker Sheppard, PhD, PhD

Director, Center for Data Analysis

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David Ditch

Senior Policy Analyst, Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

@DavidADitch

Richard Stern

Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

Thomas Dans

Visiting Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom

@TomDansCFA

Budget and Spending