Discover how tax cuts and government spending drive economic growth through expansionary fiscal policy, a tool to boost ...

The federal government’s science workforce lost nearly 95,000 employees, 11.9%, between September 2024 and December 2025, ...

Government spending under the Trump administration has increased in 2025, despite a pledge from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to drastically cut it, according to new analysis. The ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — formerly run by Elon Musk — ends 2025 with strikingly divergent results around its two primary goals. On one front, government payroll numbers are down ...

The full effects of DOGE cuts to tens of thousands of federal contracts and agreements may never be fully known, experts say, and controversy lingers.

Senate Republicans are floating spending cuts for energy and water in an appropriations bill released Monday. The legislation, which funds the Energy Department and various water programs across the ...

Lawmakers are moving to cut funding but rejecting severe reductions sought by the White House to energy and environment programs. Congressional appropriators’ latest bipartisan spending package, ...

Every year, families across Montana sit around kitchen tables making hard choices. When costs rise, they don’t pretend the problem doesn’t exist. They don’t max out another credit card and hope things ...