Republicans bet on the economy growing faster than reasonable to cover plans that could reignite inflation, rising interest ...

The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget and economic outlook includes a troubling projection for net inte ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s tariffs may be the start of another round of self-inflicted economic damage for an already strained U.S. economy ...

The Fed’s key rate has a bearing on the sustainability of public borrowing, which is heading to striking levels.

Trump's second term will generate at least $30 trillion of added debt over the next decade. And that will be a calamity.

The latest news on budget talks between President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress indicates that the financial risks to Social Security and Medicare, as well as to the entire ...

Jane Gravelle, senior specialist in economic policy at the nonpartisan Congressional ... or 120 percent of annual gross domestic product. On an annual basis, the budget deficit was $1.83 trillion ...

The approach is crucial to convincing GOP colleagues—and voters—that Trump’s plans won’t make U.S. finances worse.

The Congressional ... budget scorekeeper estimated that federal spending would total $7 trillion during the fiscal year, amounting to 23.3 percent of the country’s gross domestic product ...