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Amtrak wants $3.6 billion in subsidies. It probably won't get all of that

by Henry Epp
Mar 31, 2023
It's asking for 50% more funding than it received for the current fiscal year.
The rail service provider asked for a whopping $3.6 billion this fiscal year from Congress, which is more than it has ever gotten in its 50-plus years.
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Raising the Debt Ceiling

Biden's budget and GOP response offer up a sneak preview of next year's campaign issues

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 10, 2023
The budget is a policy document, but this one's also a campaign document.
President Biden talks about his proposed FY2024 federal budget during an event in Philadelphia on March 9.
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The federal budget, explained

by Kimberly Adams and Ben Hethcoat
Jul 31, 2017
Here's why there's always (always) so much drama.
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The Congressional Budget Office: staying above the fray

by Tracey Samuelson
May 19, 2015
New CBO head Keith Hall has the tough job of keeping politics out of the agency.
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The sequester's not-so-stringent budget cap

by Tim Fitzsimons
Mar 25, 2015
The Budget Control Act of 2011 is supposed to cap government spending.
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Why D.C. is up in arms about derivatives ... again

by Stan Alcorn
Dec 11, 2014
On the spending bill chopping block: A section of the Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reform bill. So what does it do exactly?
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