The United States' national debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by the White House and Congress.

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Student loan debt relief took center stage at the end of June when Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s $400+ billion forgiveness proposal unconstitutional. Defeated but undaunted, President Biden’s ...

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This week, I pushed a rare mid-month update to AEI’s Student Debt Forgiveness Tracker (SDFT) on the heels of the Biden Administration’s announcement trumpeting a total of $42 billion in Public Service ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday released its budget and economic outlook for the 2024 to 2034 period, which showed the national debt will soon surpass the size of the ...

Investor concerns around the US debt ceiling ebbed further on Wednesday as the deal struck by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy headed toward a vote in the House of Representatives after ...

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