Federal deficit

CNN’s poll of registered voters nationwide show Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 51 to 46 percent. But it’s a different story in the battleground states, where the race for president will be decided. (emphasis is mine) Though other recent polling has shown some signs of concern for Biden among…

Robert VerBruggen of National Review Online focuses on the latest COVID-19 relief debate on Capitol Hill. Like it or not, this is a time when borrowing money makes sense. We are facing a severe but temporary economic disaster, and we can smooth out the damage by having the…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online that COVID-19 restrictions are extending tensions involving religious liberty. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why state policymakers should treat federal COVID-19 relief as a shock absorber.

Willis Krumholz argues in a Federalist column that huge federal deficits “kill blue-collar America.” The federal government’s response to COVID-19 hasn’t helped. Coronavirus panic is hitting the global economy, and America is no exception. To patch over the shelter-in-place orders and compensate closed businesses, Congress has passed well…

James Capretta writes at Real Clear Policy about the need to turn attention to the federal government’s growing debt problem. Congress and the Trump administration are rightly focused on the immediate task of limiting the harm from the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic contraction it has precipitated. The…

Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis report for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. General Assembly’s COVID-19 relief package. John Hood’s Daily Journal warns that federal spending linked to the COVID-19 pandemic makes an existing debt problem worse.

Randall Forsyth of Barron’s notes concerns about the Federal Reserve’s potential action in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. government’s involvement in the private sector has spurred calls for it to support beleaguered state and local governments, whose budget deficits are burgeoning due to increased spending…

Michael Tanner offers a sobering reminder to National Review Online readers. In responding to the coronavirus pandemic and the health and economic catastrophes that it has wrought, politicians from both parties may have found their dream: a problem you really do have to throw money at. Already, Congress…