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Budget & Taxes
Appropriations, shutdown deadlines, the deficit, the debt limit, tax law and the IRS. How federal money is authorized, spent and borrowed.
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Upcoming deadlines
12 NOVMonthly Treasury Statement (October)
11 DECStopgap funding expires (H.R. 6500)
$972 billion of room left: the debt limit returns in 2027
The $5 trillion increase enacted in July 2025 is mostly spent. Treasury's own data show under $1 trillion of headroom, which puts the next debt-limit standoff in the first months of a new Congress.
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