Nearly one in five US tax dollars now go to paying interest on the federal debt. Debt and spending are set to surge even more ...

Nobody really budgets for a financial car crash in April. But that’s exactly what millions of Americans are dealing with this year. Instead of the refund they were counting on to finally pay off ...

A big part of the problem is that most federal spending isn't optional and neither party is tackling how to deal with the ...

The battered Internal Revenue Service shed thousands of enforcement employees—and more taxpayers appear eager to cheat.

By Michael S. Derby April 13 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Monday that the U.S. central bank had a ...

Presidential budget requests are rarely to be taken seriously. Congress typically ignores them and grinds out changes in ...

Through the window of his combine, Wayne Greier watches his teenage son Blake drive a tractor across an empty field, towing a ...

In the first step by the Legislature to transform Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposed budget into its own, the House Appropriations Committee unanimously advanced House Bill 1.

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The budget's main idea is an enormous increase in defense spending -- adding up to more than $3 trillion over 10 years, ...