Elon Musk, the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s government-shrinking initiative, DOGE, said he would cut “at least $2 ...

The U.S. government posted a $367 billion budget deficit for November, up 17% from a year earlier, as calendar adjustments ...

The $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit in the fiscal year that ended in September was the third biggest ever in dollar ...

Trump has proposed big cuts to the federal budget, but any significant reductions could have an outsized impact in states ...

This week's House Budget Committee hearing showed bipartisan agreement about the seriousness of America's fiscal problems.

A new report from the Penn Wharton Budget Model argues that the federal debt can be slashed without sacrificing economic ...

A wise and respected local financial adviser who asked not to be named in this editorial points to a Dec. 6 article by Clem Chambers in Forbes Magazine. It’s called "Strange Debt: How I Learned To ...

"But at some point, if you borrow too much, lenders may question your ability to pay it all back. It doesn’t take a vigilante ...

The U.S. House passed a mostly bipartisan bill to spend nearly $1 trillion on national defense, adding to the already growing ...

Lawmakers called for a 4.5% federal pay raise to align with the military’s expected 2025 raise. Currently, civilian feds are ...

President-elect Donald Trump has floated establishing a “Department of Government Efficiency” to make steep cuts to the U.S. federal budget and appointing allies billionaire Elon Musk and ...