It’s looking like "thumbs up" for Russ Vought in the Senate, where Republicans are preparing to confirm him to lead the White House budget office despite his reputation for withholding congressionally ...

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) grilled Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to lead the White House Office of Management and ...

The $252 billion spending plan for New York addressed concerns about affordability, crime and the cost of living, but did ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health ...

The Congressional Budget Office projects the federal deficit will continue to rise, reaching $2.7 trillion by 2035, due to ...

The Senate has passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.

Social Security is contending with a greater than $23 trillion long-term funding shortfall. In January 1940, the Social Security Administration (SSA) mailed its first-ever retired ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the equivalent of $55.1 billion.

Projections show steady budget deficits exceeding 5% of GDP, even assuming that the bulk of the 2017 tax cuts expire.

But that record was threatened in the Republican-led House of Representatives on July 14, 2023, when members passed the US$886 billion bill by a 219-210 mostly party-line vote. Reflecting the current ...