1. Know When It’s Time to Make Changes. No budget is perfect or meant to last forever. If your income or expenses have changed, that’s a good time to adjust your budgeting categories.

11 Budget Categories You’re Probably Forgetting in Your Monthly Budget Annual Subscriptions. This happened to us this year. We completely forgot about our ...

US budget gap hits $1.1T record in first five months of fiscal year The still-expanding deficit poses a potential wrinkle for efforts to extend and expand the 2017 Trump tax cut package. MAR 12, 2025 ...

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This ...

The Budget maintains U.S. competitiveness in priority areas such as high-performance ... Proposed 2026 Discretionary Request by Discretionary Category (Budget authority in billions of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit has grown to more than $1.3 trillion in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year — the second highest six-month deficit on record… ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five ...