Almost all of the cuts that Republicans hope to pass in the coming weeks will last only until President Trump is set to leave ...

With less than three weeks until the Illinois legislature’s scheduled adjournment, lobbyists, nonprofits, activists and ...

Something extraordinary is going on and nobody is quite sure what it is. The bond market yesterday did a loopdy-loo and so ...

Relief following the tariff war de-escalation looks set to be quickly replaced by government budget tensions. Alarms are ...

The frequently cantankerous Wisconsin senator is pushing his fellow Republicans to deliver huge spending cuts.

Thanks to the annual surge in receipts as Americans pay their tax bills, the U.S. recorded a budget surplus of $258 billion ...

Meanwhile, the administration has repeatedly denied federal aid to disaster-stricken regions, arguing that states should lead response efforts. This earned a rebuke from Republicans in Arkansas, who ...

The tax portion of Republicans’ wide-ranging bill full of President Trump’s domestic priorities would cost $3.7 trillion over ...

U.S. tariff revenue hit a record $16.3 billion in April, easing the budget deficit rate as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs took hold.

The Art of Unbalancing the Budget. The idea that the government should live within its means and annually balance its budget was the fiscal policy objective of the nation's leader ...

The U.S. government posted a $258 billion budget surplus for April, up 23%, or about $49 billion, from a year earlier, the ...

The U.S. government posted a $258 billion budget surplus for April, up 23%, or about $49 billion, from a year earlier, ...