COMING SOON,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X last month, “the first TRILLION dollar @DeptofDefense budget.” Thank ...

Trump's first budget since reclaiming office seeks to make good on his promises to boost spending on border security while ...

We explore what federal government spends its money on. By German Lopez and Ashley Wu Discussions about federal spending are difficult ... as a share of G.D.P. A chart shows federal debt as ...

That said, there’s already a line item in the main ... Expunging all government spending from GDP is another matter, as most federal spending in the U.S. is not consumption and investments ...

NPR's Stephen Fowler has been tracking the work of that so-called department and joins us now ... for specific money-saving line items in the federal budget. INSKEEP: OK. So who is making the ...

Trump disavowed that effort during the campaign but once in office, he made Vought his budget czar. The federal ... line vote, bypassing the Senate filibuster. "We think the Hill will be with us ...