These charts show you how big the federal budget is
The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress.
Ray Dalio: We Need to Cut the Budget Deficit Now. Here’s How We Do It
In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.
US Budget Deficit Hits Record $840 Billion Over Past Four Months
The US federal budget gap widened to a record $840 billion for the first third of the fiscal year, propelled by spending ...
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Feds Run Record Budget Deficit Through First Four Months of Fiscal 2025
DOGE has got its work cut out for it. Even as the new Department of Government Efficiency ferrets out wasteful spending, the ...
House GOP panel passes budget blueprint with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and steep spending reductions
The Republican-led Budget Committee approved a sweeping proposal to unlock Trump's agenda, sending it to the full House.
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12-Month Rolling Deficit is $2.1 Trillion in January 2025
The 12-month rolling deficit – or the amount the federal government has borrowed over the past year – totaled $2.1 trillion, based on estimates from ...
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Federal budget deficit expected to soar to $2.7 trillion in 2035, highlighting pressure on GOP
Even if those tax breaks are allowed to lapse at year’s end, the federal budget deficit will still climb to $2.7 trillion in a decade, according to the CBO’s latest outlook, released Friday.
Federal Budget Deficit Will Need to Be Closed Eventually, Powell Warns
Federal budget deficits in the trillions of dollars per year can’t go on forever, Powell warned. “It's not the level of ...
U.S. Deficit Dynamics: Economic And Investor Implications
U.S. government bonds, or Treasuries, are the primary way the federal government borrows money and one of the world’s most ...
Clinton initiative cut over 377K federal jobs in the 1990s. It's not comparable to Trump's effort
Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in their attempts to cut ...
Trade deficits are a distraction — focus instead on the debt
Broad-based increases in tariff barriers to reduce the trade deficit will be ineffectual, counterproductive and ultimately ...
An Unconventional Plan for Fixing the Federal Budget
The Apollo C.E.O. Marc Rowan has championed a model that doesn’t fit within party lines.