In his address to a joint session of Congress in March 2025, President Donald Trump set a bold goal for the U.S. government. ...

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While Trump sidestepped talking about the national debt, he did briefly touch on the federal budget. He officially announced a “war on fraud” to be led by Vice President JD Vance, claiming that if the ...

NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Global debt climbed to a record $348 trillion at the end of 2025, after nearly $29 trillion was ...

Global debt ballooned by nearly $29 trillion last year to touch a record $348 trillion, as governments ramped up spending on ...

A bipartisan commission saved Social Security in the 1980s. How would that approach fare today?

Trump is putting the U.S. economy on a "sugar high" and leaving other people holding the bill when it comes due a decade from now, according to the CRFB.

“The idea that this is pro-American is actually just the opposite,” Wharton’s Kent Smetters told Fortune. “It hurts American manufacturers.” ...

WASHINGTON — In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government's gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion this week, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of ...

The U.S. national debt is on pace to break a record set after World War II in four years, while annual budget deficits are projected to balloon to $3 trillion a year a decade from now, according to a ...

Not long after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while I was editor of a then-weekly community newspaper in Northeast Florida, a freshman member of the U.S. House ...