The U.S. budget deficit totaled $307 billion for President Donald Trump's first full month in office, up 4%, or $11 billion, ...

Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid ...

How long this DOGE-Cabinet detente will last is another matter entirely. It had better take hold. Otherwise, the nation may ...

President Trump has made large scale changes to the federal workforce even before receiving mass layoff plans from federal agencies due Thursday.

The U.S. budget deficit for the first five months of fiscal 2025 hit a record $1.147 trillion, the Treasury Department said ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the ...

While Democrats see “nothing but instability coming out of Washington,” one Republican leader says, “Things are going really ...

President Donald Trump's mass firings of permanent federal employees have already begun and are expected to accelerate over ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy ...

President Trump invited Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy and other member of the Senate Finance Committee to a White House meeting Thursday.

It would not only be the right thing to do, but for the president and his party, it would be the smart thing to do.” — Jim Malec, Roxborough Park.

Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of higher education and the first Native American to lead the agency, was appointed by former ...