Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5 ...

The Treasury secretary keeps repeating one number. The government's own scorekeeper just showed why it keeps slipping out of ...

Looking at the average monthly deficit, January and February were both worse than average, whereas March was slightly better. The latest quarter was slightly better than last Q2 and also better than ...

Thu, March 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTC A federal court ruling in favor of tariff refunds reduces one of the economic upsides of import taxes—their benefit to the federal budget. On Wednesday, a federal ...

Debt held by the public will balloon to more than $56 trillion by 2036 as annual deficits continue to mount, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office. By later this ...

The U.S. economy is increasingly propped up by federal deficit spending, which, by one estimate, effectively adds about $15,000 per household to the economy each year. Federal deficit spending became ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's 10-year outlook projects worsening long-term federal deficits and rising debt, driven largely by increased spending, notably on Social Security, Medicare, ...

Eliminating Social Security's deficit would cut the federal government's primary deficit in half. It would also make Americans happy. Recently, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget ...