Domestic Spending

With Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, President Joe Biden has taken office with a real opportunity to advance new spending and tax...

Note: Data updates on February 3, 2021 reduce the difference between legislative amount allowed and committed/disbursed from $1.3 trillion to $1.1...

This week we updated COVID Money Tracker with all of the major provisions from the $915 billion 1 in COVID relief provisions in December’s...

In her recent Washington Post column, Catherine Rampell argues progressives should “be more progressive in an old-fashioned sense: by helping the poor...

In the first three days of distributing the second round of stimulus checks approved by Congress in the Response and Relief Act, the Treasury...

With the passage of the Response & Relief Act, Congress has now allocated around $4 trillion of COVID relief at a net cost of over $3.4 trillion...

The House approved the CASH Act Monday to increase recently enacted stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. Some of those hesitant about the...

With the enactment of the Response & Relief Act yesterday, policymakers in both parties have called for expanding recovery rebates from $600 per...

Unlike in past recessions, personal income has grown during the current crisis as a result of the aggressive fiscal and monetary actions taken to...

President Trump is yet to sign the year-end bill that contains the Coronavirus Response & Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and accompanying...

Lawmakers passed a new COVID relief deal on December 21, 2020, which was subsequently signed into law by the President on December 27. The deal in...

Lawmakers Monday released the full text of a $908 billion bipartisan stimulus package, which was released in summary form back on December 1. The...