The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report on Monday that the federal government racked up a deficit of $127 ...

For years, New York has been a hotbed for SNAP theft. While New Yorkers make up seven percent of SNAP users nationwide, they ...

The truth behind Social Security's funding. To understand the government's borrowing from Social Security, it's important to ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Phasing out the penny could result in needing to make more nickels, and the U.S. Treasury Department loses far more money on ...

If you want to reform U.S. foreign aid or criticize its strategic importance, start by getting the facts right.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been kneecapped in the latest attack on a government institution by the Trump ...

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s ...

Some of the agency’s funding went to programs encouraging Israeli and Palestinian coexistence, while other grants went to pro ...

Learn how many immigrant workers are in the labor market, which industries would be most affected by a shortage of immigrant ...

Calling all DOGErs. Outlays rose 15% in the first third of fiscal 2025.

Republicans bet on the economy growing faster than reasonable to cover plans that could reignite inflation, rising interest ...