The federal budget deficit is back in the spotlight after the Republican-controlled Congress approved a massive tax and ...

The U.S. Treasury is considering making a bet on the future of interest rates, potentially breaking a long tradition of market neutrality in the hopes of reducing America’s large and rising ...

Having the Air Force fly a B-2 bomber overhead during a signing ceremony for a budget bill would have in a different time ...

By 2018, our national debt had grown to $22 trillion. Trump at that time stated in his budget proposal that the national debt ...

Conventional wisdom holds that ever-increasing debt relative to gross domestic product is unsustainable, though another line of argument holds that fears about the hole the US is in are overblown.

CNBC interviewed a dozen experts, investors and former government officials to explore the consequences of America’s fiscal ...

Rep. Brad Finstad dismisses fears that the bill will add trillions in red ink as false Democratic talking points.

President Trump's 'big beautiful bill' will provide a boost to the economy in the near term but just a tiny bump over the ...

The decades following World War II were broadly prosperous, but conditions began changing in the 1970s. Class inequality has increased enormously since then, according to government data, while income ...

There is an array of opinion about government safety nets. What should they encompass? Should they even exist? Watching ...

As President Donald Trump's July 4 deadline for passing his "Big Beautiful Bill" approaches, the White House has been touting ...

President Donald Trump signed into law last week a sweeping package of tax cuts and spending cuts, which passed the Senate and House with narrow majorities and no Democratic support. As is his ...