Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said this week that they plan to target billions of dollars in “unauthorized” federal spending as part ... As the chart below shows, veterans’ healthcare ...

Trump is trying to push his 'big beautiful tax and spending bill through Congress. Here's who would benefit the most – and ...

Several GOP lawmakers have said they’ll buck the president’s request as Congress faces a Sept. 30 government shutdown cliff.

The next largest source of spending is the Department of Public Health: $3.2 billion, or about 18 percent of the total.

The House of Representatives’ Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) – would add ...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) huddled with White House officials and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on ...

Federal spending is actually higher this year than ... Federal debt as a share of G.D.P. A chart shows federal debt as a share of gross domestic product, from 1900 to 2024. Debt was over 100 ...

Our chart below shows the dramatic funding ups ... During the height of the Department of Government Efficiency’s assault on federal spending, Hegseth signaled the DOD was falling in line ...

The hardest hit state departments are health and human services, and education. But the cuts are rippling across a range of government agencies and higher education institutions.

As an effort to meaningfully reduce federal spending, however, DOGE remains wholly unserious. Musk initially promised that he would eliminate $2 trillion of the $7 trillion federal budget ...