"The administration is now focusing on applying tariffs to about 15% of nations with persistent trade imbalances with the U.S ...

The Trump administration notified Congress on Friday that, after months of cuts, it is effectively shuttering what’s left of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the arm of the federal ...

The national debt is set to “grow far beyond any previously recorded level over the next 30 years,” the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday. At the same time, the nonpartisan budget ...

Welcome to the weekend! Next week promises to bring lots of news on tariffs and developments in the push by congressional Republicans for a compromise budget blueprint, which reportedly is being ...

A closely watched measure of how Americans are feeling about their personal finances and the future of the economy shows they are growing increasingly worried amid persistent inflation, a rapidly ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that he plans to lay off 10,000 employees, bringing staffing levels at his department down to 62,000 — roughly 20,000 ...

President Trump’s pick to lead the Social Security Administration faced a grilling by Senate Democrats at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, with questions over DOGE-led cuts that have ...

The security breach that’s been dubbed SignalGate continues to dominate headlines and consume official Washington. After President Donald Trump and key administration intelligence officials ...

Debt held by the public would climb to 214% of GDP over the next 30 years, 47 percentage points higher than the 166% projected in CBO’s baseline, which itself would be a record high, up from a current ...

Leland Dudek, acting head of the Social Security Administration, reportedly threatened to shut down the agency in response to a judge’s order restricting the access of DOGE employees to ...

President Trump said Friday that as part of his effort to radically shrink the Department of Education, he is moving the management of all student loans to the Small Business Administration.

Happy Thursday! On this date in 1854, the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party by citizens who gathered at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. Today, what was once the party of ...