Access to telehealth and hospital-at-home care has been a lifeline for many older Americans. However, recent changes to Medicare coverage could disrupt these services in 2025, leaving beneficiaries uncertain about their options.

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed remedies still differ radically.

From Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to 2035, nominal spending will grow by 53 percent according to the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline. About 83 percent of this increase can be explained by only three parts of the federal budget: Social Security, health care, and net interest on the national debt.

As congressional Republicans struggle to keep deficits in check while extending their sweeping 2017 tax cuts, the Congressional Budget Office provided a dour forecast.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its latest 10-year budget outlook, which projected the U.S. is on track to break a notable debt record in just four years.

Republicans on the House Budget Committee are considering more than 200 potential budget cuts, tax breaks, tariffs and changes to programs like Medicare and Social Security in preparation for

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors. Amid much talk about the problem,

The new Department of Government Efficiency can't go after Medicare or Social Security. That leaves Medicaid in a vulnerable position.

Virginia has an opportunity to improve residents’ health by increasing Medicaid payments to primary care physicians, ODU family medicine professor Bob Newman, M.D., writes in a guest column.

Read about the CBO's projections regarding the country's budget and economy for 2025 and for the 10 years that follow.

Now that Donald Trump is back for a second presidential term, another big political shift will happen simultaneously happen post-inauguration. The Republicans now fully control Congress, which

The Congressional Budget Office says that the amount of federal ... levels will rise as increases in spending on Social Security, Medicare and interest payments outpace growth in revenues.