Imagine getting a surprise $5,000 check from the government, all thanks to Elon Musk’s latest brainchild—the Department of ...

The U.S. budget deficit for the first five months of fiscal 2025 hit a record $1.147 trillion, the Treasury Department said ...

The U.S. current account deficit contracted in the fourth quarter, but the improvement could be temporary as goods imports ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $2.2 trillion between March 2024 and February 2025 based on estimates from the ...

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Since fiscal year 2025 began on Oct. 1, the federal budget deficit has totaled a new record of $1.146 trillion, according to Treasury data. Compared with the first five months of fiscal year 2024 ...

The federal government ran yet another massive budget deficit in February, pushing the total budget shortfall to over $1 ...

Let’s not make light of the fact that $100 billion dollars is meaningful, but it’s a far cry from closing the gap on the $2 trillion-dollar fiscal deficit we are running now, with half of that ...

The new numbers, released Wednesday, showed the deficit between October 2024, and February 2025. The deficit for February ...

The Department of Government Efficiency has floated the idea of stimulus payments based on how much the department "saves" ...

For most of the past six decades, the United States has been facing the threat of implosion from a growing federal budget ...

Trump wants to reduce the $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so he’s putting tariffs on popular imported goods from smartphones to ...