Recent reports on U.S. defense spending have raised questions about whether it is too much or too little, ...
A last-minute Republican plan to extend certain tax breaks and create some new ones appears to face dim ...
A bipartisan commission recently released a report filled with alarming language about the country’s ability to defend itself ...
Amid bipartisan frustration over the federal budget process, Congress early this year created a special committee to develop ...
Returning to Washington this week, Congress and President Trump face a pile of leftover budget work that they ...
Congressional candidates have said little, if anything, about the federal government’s deteriorating finances. When the winners turn their ...
Since 2001 the Defense Department has received $2.2 trillion in special funding that has been on top of ...
The Treasury Department’s final report for Fiscal Year 2018, showing a 17 percent ($113 billion) jump in the ...
How do high and rising federal deficits hurt ordinary Americans? With the Treasury Department’s recent announcement that the deficit ...
Social Security benefits for more than 67 million Americans will increase 2.8 percent next year, the federal government ...
The federal deficit for Fiscal 2018 totaled $782 billion, an increase of $116 billion over the previous fiscal ...
With the federal deficit projected to exceed $1 trillion in Fiscal 2020, many economists worry that Washington’s heavy ...