Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

The bottom line: There are flaws and limitations in how government GDP statistics account for government spending. But they are well-known, transparent and the kinds of things economy-watchers can ...

The U.S. government's spending dramatically increased between 2019 and 2020, and over the course of the subsequent three years, it gradually decreased, fiscal data from the U.S. Treasury shows.

The dream of gutting government, offered with a technocratic veneer. The department run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy has no obvious insight into government spending but very obvious plans to ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created to slash waste and reduce federal spending, but so far, the opposite has happened. Be Aware: 4 Mistakes the Upper Middle Class Are Making ...

A chart compares daily cumulative federal spending by day in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, through March 26 of each year. Federal spending is higher this year than it was at this point in 2024.

The result is an interactive graph showing over time what money went to each line item. And on Monday, February 3, they hit refresh and one of the lines, the one for USAID, drops to zero.

Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words ...