With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

What Democrats and the Biden administration did was to make the COVID crisis their baseline for spending and keep it there.

The average taxpayer’s piece of the $37-trillion federal debt is about $240,000, or six years of the median income.

But, the latest monthly Treasury statement delivered a rare — and welcome — surprise. In April 2025, the U.S. government ...

President Trump has sought to claw back funds for public broadcasting and foreign aid, sparking a fierce debate over the ...

The White House released an analysis Wednesday indicating that the massive Republican policy bill would generate enormous ...

A new analysis from the White House is projecting that the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could lead to a ...

Treasury today trades with a yield of 3.80%, while the fed funds rate is still stuck at 4.375%, which suggests the Fed/FOMC ...

A 2-year-old conservative group with a grand-sounding acronym has packed a major punch as congressional Republicans push forward the “big, beautiful bill” of President ...

Plus, $165.3 million 5-Year Capital Improvements budget and $2.4 million in federal community funds ...

Trump and Republicans have set a July 4 deadline to pass a bill cutting taxes and Medicaid and to pay for immigration ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...