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

Top Trump administration officials are arguing that it is misleading to include government spending in the quarterly tally of GDP. It sets up a clash between the administration and economists over ...

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 ...

DOGE is cutting government spending, but overall spending is still up and the deficit has increased. Learn what that means for the economy and for your money.

Spending review in five charts: Who are the winners and losers in Rachel Reeves’ plan? Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses ...

Plus find out which countries all spent a greater proportion of their GDP than America did in 2022.

The U.S. faces a debt dangerous crisis with Congress's overspending pushing the nation towards a fiscal cliff. Trump has to figure a way to fix things before it's too late.

Thanks to the U.S. government's tradition of data transparency, there is a way to see exactly what money is going to government programs and agencies. O research group used it to create a widget.

Despite Elon Musk's claims that the Department of Government Efficiency has saved $150 billion, federal spending under Trump's second term has increased by $154 billion, driven largely by rising ...

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is far from perfect, but it does make some much-needed changes to Medicaid spending growth.

DOGE is cutting government spending, but overall spending is still up and the deficit has increased. Learn what that means for the economy and for your money.