WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal ...

Federal workers were responding with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration’s latest ...

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ ...

The hiring freeze is set to begin on March 1. It’s one strategy Austin ISD is using to cut spending by $32 million, so the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker will present his seventh budget proposal Wednesday as the state faces a projected $3.2 billion revenue ...

The map below shows which countries hold the U.S. has the largest trade decifits. According to the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, the U.S runs its largest deficit of $295 ...

DOGE has got its work cut out for it. Even as the new Department of Government Efficiency ferrets out wasteful spending, the ...

The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress.

Collectively, Americans now owe a record $1.21 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new quarterly report on ...

The monthly government budget release is typically a pretty sleepy one. I know, because I’m sitting there at 2 p.m. Eastern ...

When revenue exceeds expenses, there is a budget surplus which can be used to reduce the national debt. In any given year, the government's budget and spending can result in a deficit or surplus.