federal budget
Let’s hold a conclave on Capitol Hill
By Thomas Reese — January 3, 2024
(RNS) — Instead of forcing Congress to do nothing, a conclave would force members of Congress to do their job.
Playing chicken over debt and spending bills
By Thomas Reese — May 23, 2023
(RNS) — Would that Congress could look seriously at government programs to make them better and more efficient rather than grandstanding for the media and their partisan base.
Fighting inflation with one hand tied behind your back
By Thomas Reese — May 9, 2023
(RNS) — Congress must act decisively to rationalize the budgetary process.
If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?
By Bridget Moix — May 13, 2022
(RNS) — Why is destroying our enemies a higher priority than feeding, clothing and teaching children?
Catholic bishops got exactly what they wanted in congressional budget agreement
By Thomas Reese — March 11, 2022
(RNS) — The bishops once again showed their ability to stay independent of partisan agendas.
Humanities endangered
By Martin E. Marty — March 23, 2017
The arts and humanities may have a lower priority when it comes to the Union’s constitutional commitment to promoting the general welfare—relative to higher priorities like care for the aged, the ill, the poor, the displaced—but they deserve a glance in this time of crisis.
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