The U.S. government posted a $316 billion budget deficit for May, down 9%, or $31 billion, from a year earlier, as customs ...

Protests against immigration officers are spreading beyond Los Angeles. Trump’s immigrant crackdown now includes ICE ...

President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson say their tax-and-spending bill will slash the deficit. A growing number of their ...

Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after a key bond auction eased concerns that the US economy might be falling ...

Concerns about the national debt from Elon Musk and some Republican lawmakers is complicating the path to passage for Trump's ...

During his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refuses to answer Senator Ben Ray Luján's questions confronting him on estimates that Trump's 'one ...

The May jobs report indicated that the labor market is still solid, even if there are some concerning signs like the rise in ...

For example, a YouGov/Economist poll noted that when President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was announced, only 43 percent of Americans opposed the 2025 budget package. In less than two weeks ...

Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.

President Donald Trump and other top Republicans insist their tax-and-spending bill will slash the federal government’s budget deficit. Many House and Senate Republicans disagree. In recent ...

What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.