A new report shows that federal spending has ballooned for more than a century, raising questions about whether Americans are ...

Federal spending per person has surged nearly 100-fold since 1916, reaching $20,474 in fiscal year 2025, according to Rachel ...

Congress may lock in federal spending that fails to keep up with economic and population growth for the second year in a row, potentially leading to historically low levels. Disagreements over the ...

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Amid the layoffs, canceled programs and other cutbacks in Washington since Donald Trump moved back into the White House in January, one thing hasn’t changed: Federal spending has just kept going up.

DOGE helped slash the federal workforce from 3.015 million in January to 2.744 million employees in November though overall federal spending has not gone down.

“We have to return to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending,” says Republican US Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who doesn’t like the budget bill that passed in the House because it doesn’t ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday released data showing the federal government ran a $1.8 trillion budget deficit in fiscal year 2025 amid mounting interest costs on the nearly $38 ...

Discover key arguments for and against a balanced federal budget, exploring potential impacts on national debt, taxpayers, and future economic stability.

In fiscal year 2023, the combination of expiring federal COVID-19 pandemic aid, slowing tax revenue growth, and rising costs for Medicaid led to an increase in the share of state revenue dedicated to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—SNAP is the federal program, previously known as food stamps, that helps low-income families with food. Grace Bonilla, President and CEO of United Way of New York City, said ...