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Pork-barrel spending has been a Washington tradition since, well, since back when people still bought pork products by the barrel. And to prove it, the new Congressional Pig Book is out from Citizens Against Government Waste.

The good news from the Social Security and Medicare trustees is that things haven't gotten any worse. The bad news is that the situation was bad anyway.

The New York Times today has a story looking at the "other" health care issue in the presidental campaign: skyrocketing costs. Most of the debate in recent weeks has been over how to cover the uninsured, particularly in the Democratic race.

Andrew Taylor at the Associated Press earned his pay today with this story, "Costly Campaign Vows Face Reality Check." It's today's must-read budget story, for the simple reason that it states the facts the candidates won't tell you: the b

The media previews of the president's budget request seem to have been mostly right: President Bush is proposing a $3 trillion budget with a $400 billion deficit, along with cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to control costs and offset increases in<

President Bush will give his final State of the Union address tomorrow night, and the word that keeps coming up in news stories ahead of the speech is "modest."