Donald Trump does not want to be reminded about how his economic plans would massively balloon the federal debt.

Top of the list: How do we keep a straight face when you pretend to be an inflation hawk?

They talk deficit reduction. But what they actually do—time after time after time—is raise it via corporate giveaways. Here’s the latest example.

Having just slashed domestic spending, now McCarthy & Co. want to turn around and give money to rich corporations. And Democrats might just let them.

The GOP is again pushing for harsher work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP—even though it would barely dent our national debt.

It’s true—our entitlement programs face bankruptcy. The Republicans’ ideas are nonsense. Here’s what the Democrats should say.

From atop the mountains of Davos, the West Virginia senator has brought down his next big idea: Bring back the supercommittee!

A negative score from Washington’s budget metaphysicians could have killed the Build Back Better Act. But when a positive one came in, barely anyone noticed.

The public doesn’t care about deficits. It’s time for lawmakers to get with the program.

Republicans are pretending to be the party of fiscal responsibility again.

Democrats can end the insane tradition of holding the global economy hostage now and forever.

Despite decades of being wrong, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget still calls the tune in Washington.

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

The country is in desperate need of a massive economic recovery program. The incoming administration shouldn’t hold back.

Millionaires in Congress have long since lost touch with most constituents’ concerns.

Though we’re in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, calls for budget-tightening have reliably restarted.

America may emerge from the coronavirus pandemic straight into a hot war over the future of the economy.

Once the province of wonks, the MMT cause is being embraced by ordinary people in search of a more moral economy.

Paul Ryan's departure marks the end of an era—and the further Trumpification of the Republican Party.

Sure, Republicans are only part-time deficit hawks. It's all part of the plan.