In fiscal 2023, the most recent year for which detailed financial information is available, Medicaid’s net cost was $894.2 ...

"The federal Department of Education spends — has a budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students," she said. "So where does the other $220 billion go?

The federal government spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare programs and services in 2024–the single largest category of federal spending. As President Donald Trump's budget proposal makes its way ...

States that use provider taxes to get more money usually start by paying the hospitals more. If the federal government is paying 60 percent and the state 40 percent, when a state bumps a payment ...

If states picked up the costs from the federal government and kept their expansion populations in place, they would spend more than $600 billion to do so over a decade, an increase of almost 20 ...