The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress.

Republicans readily admit the revenue loss from their tax proposals will be far larger than the spending cuts they’re ...

The United States spends $1 trillion on welfare and medicaid, which can be reduced while still increasing welfare benefits.

As Elon Musk has led an effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last few years, received ...

We might be going through a large federal government spending cut in the range of $1 trillion to $2 trillion per year. This ...

The federal government is the nation's largest employer, yet the size of its workforce hasn't kept up with U.S. population ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, focused on cutting government waste and spending, has more than doubled its ...

The CBO estimated the federal budget deficit reached $838 billion in the last four months, which is $306 billion more than the same time frame a year before, as outlays climbed 15 percent.

A swirl of possible state and federal policy decisions could eject 771,000 Ohioans from Medicaid, a public health insurance program for low-income earners. Those people are covered today thanks to ...

DOLLARS AND SENSE — Hanging over another year of modest growth in the state’s budget are questions about the future of federal funding ... far exceeding her total from the year before ...