The Republican legislation, coupled with spending bills, accounts for 46 percent of the growing deficit.
Two recently passed pieces of legislation are driving big near-term deficit spikes.
An experiment demonstrates the death by a thousand cuts that could result from across-the-board cuts that would follow a deadline fumble by the U.S. deficit "super committee."
As the U.S. Congress prepares to weigh a new round of massive budget cuts mandated by this summer's deal on the deficit, some odd bedfellows offer a suite of suggestions for saving green by being green.
A panel ranging from liberals to libertarians suggests turning the mortgage interest deduction, a sacred cow of the U.S. tax code, into hamburger.
An online game that tasks players with reining in government spending suggests the public is more willing to make hard choices than they get credit for.