House Republicans are divided over some of the thorniest issues at the center of their plan to pass President Trump’s ...
Read about GAO's recent report about rising U.S. federal debt, its drivers and what steps should be taken to correct it.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report on Monday that the federal government racked up a deficit of $127 ...
Other writers question Trump's tariffs remembering Canada has long been our ally and question Hochul's budget and some policy ...
The piggy bank originated about 500 years ago at the dawn of capitalism, when ordinary people started to possess silver coins ...
A key measure of excess liquidity in the financial system is evaporating rapidly. Once it disappears, further reduction of ...
Democratic Rep. Scott Peters and Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan reintroduced a bipartisan bill last week to reform ...
If you feel your credit card bill is bad, you should see the amount of federal debt the United States holds. The rapidly growing deficit seems to indicate between what the government spends, ...
U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) demanded a full accounting from the Treasury Department of Elon Musk and his allies’ ...
In January 2023, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the government had hit its debt ceiling, the maximum amount of money that the federal government can legally borrow.
Civic arguments are a nonstarter. Cultural arguments are the heaviest of heavy lifts. Like it or not, for better or worse, if ...
Republicans bet on the economy growing faster than reasonable to cover plans that could reignite inflation, rising interest ...