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.
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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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
Compare that with the same period last year under Joe Biden: federal spending back then came to about $26bn a day. Outflows ...
CBS News on MSN2d
What is DOGE? Here's what to know about Elon Musk's latest cost-cutting efforts.
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wants to cut government spending, but it's also prompting lawsuits and ...
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 ...
Where Trump, Musk and DOGE Have Cut Federal Workers So Far
President Trump and Elon Musk have spent three weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...
What Does USAID Spend Money on? List of Potential Cuts
For decades, USAID has managed over $40 billion annually for programs tackling disease, disaster relief, clean water access, and economic development.
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What the data says about U.S. foreign aid
The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal ...
To pay for Trump's tax cuts, House Republicans could raise student loan bills for millions of borrowers
The average borrower's monthly bill could swell to $288 from $95, according to an early estimate by the Institute for College ...
What has DOGE cut so far?
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created by President Donald Trump to curb wasteful spending and make the federal budget more efficient.