Ground zero for the party’s great un-awokening was this week’s WelcomeFest, the moderate Democrats’ Coachella. There, hundreds of centrist elected officials, candidates and operatives gathered to ...

In an interview, Phill Swagel defended the CBO’s forecasting record as Republicans blast the fiscal scorekeeping agency’s ...

In his eulogy for Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s Mark Antony famously—and, of course, disingenuously—claims that he came “to ...

States would respond in a variety of ways, CBO Director Phillip Swagel wrote, including potentially dropping out of the program. “CBO expects that some states would maintain current benefits and ...

“The changes would not be evenly distributed among households,” said Phillip Swagel, director of the CBO. “The agency estimates that, in general, resources would decrease for households in ...

In May 2025, a claim spread online that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the U.S. discovered 8 million people fraudulently enrolled in Medicaid, the government health insurance ...

The fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy aides. By Natasha Frost A suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was charged with first-degree murder and other crimes after the fatal ...

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Its director, Phillip Swagel, an alumnus of the George W. Bush administration, began the job during Republican control of the Senate in 2019, and was re-appointed during Democratic control of the ...

Check your internet connection or browser settings. “The changes would not be evenly distributed among households,” said Phillip Swagel, director of the CBO. “The agency estimates that ...

CBO Director Phillip Swagel is a Republican appointee who’s served in the role since 2019, but that hasn’t prevented conservative accusations of the agency embracing a left-leaning tilt.