The U.S. government posted a higher $284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed and impacted by the recent federal ...

To be sure, the picture is less gloomy if one shifts the lens slightly. Money that normally would have been paid in November ...

US deficit rises as entitlement and debt costs soar, despite higher tariffs. Learn why reform is crucial for fiscal stability ...

We're continuing to track the big tax and spending bill winding its way through Congress, which would add $2.4 trillion to the U.S. government deficit over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan ...

Federal figures show only a slight deficit drop from last year, and the gap grew during Trump’s time in office ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States' deficit hit $1.3 trillion in the first half of the fiscal year with the federal government on track to reach its $1.9 trillion projection by fiscal year's end. The ...

The federal government ran a $345 billion deficit for the month of August, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Treasury Thursday. The figure exceeded expectations, as economists had forecast a ...

Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives. That may have been true at one time, but that hasn’t been so for decades. The change began in the 1970s, when Jude Wanniski came up with the “two Santas” ...

In the world’s biggest bond market, investors are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s tax-cut plan. On Wednesday, they drove yields on benchmark 30-year Treasuries to as high as 5.1%, ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...