A Newsweek graph illustrates how U.S. defense spending has declined since the last era of great power competition ended with the Cold War. "The United States ... base defense budget to increase ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model makes that easy to do, cleaning up and analyzing raw data the ...

We asked them to help us demystify the Pentagon budget so every American taxpayer ... is a point of contention. Our chart below shows the dramatic funding ups and downs in the president’s ...

The CBO analysis says Trump's tariffs over the next decade would reduce deficits by $2.8 trillion while also curbing economic ...

The U.S. government posted a $258 billion budget surplus for April, up 23%, or about $49 billion, from a year earlier, reflecting strong tax receipts in the final month of the tax season and record ...

The U.S. budget deficit surged past the $1 trillion mark in February, less than six months into fiscal year 2025. According to the Department of the Treasury, the federal government so far has ...

the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities estimates. A pie chart showing US health spending by type of insurance. If the proposed tax cuts more than paid for themselves, they could theoretically ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US budget deficit continued to swell in February, pushing the shortfall to $1.15 trillion over the first five months of the fiscal year, with the increasing cost of Medicare and ...