Tag: Federal Budget (US)

A few days ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, embarked on a media tour to defend his decision ...

Years before President Trump returned to the White House, his budget chief, Russell T. Vought, began mapping out a plan ...

Increased federal spending in recent years has helped to improve U.S. ports, roads, parks, public transit and levees, according to ...

The United States could run out of cash to continue paying its bills by mid-July if Congress does not take ...

A contracting firm called Leidos took in more than $16 billion in revenue last year, most of it through contracts ...

President Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail last year. Investors and business leaders enthusiastically cheered some, ...

Getting inflation under control since the worst surge in decades has been a bumpy process in recent months. New data ...

The Republican Party won the last election in no small part because of its new appeal with working-class voters, a ...

House Republicans hunting for ways to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts have called for cutting the federal government’s share ...

Even by Washington standards, the second Trump presidency has begun in frenetic fashion: mass firings at federal agencies, tariff threats ...

As the reality sets in that the United States is drastically diminishing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to hold off on a plan that would cut $4 billion in federal ...

Nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health on Monday to block a $4 ...

The Senate voted along party lines on Thursday to confirm Russell T. Vought to lead the Office of Management and ...

While he was campaigning last fall, President Trump bemoaned the lack of a U.S.-backed investment fund and promised to create ...

In Elon Musk’s first two weeks in government, his lieutenants gained access to closely held financial and data systems, casting ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter on Monday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demanding answers for why the ...

I spoke to Marc Rowan, the C.E.O. of Apollo Global Management, about a provocative plan he believes could fundamentally reshape ...

The path of interest rates over the next year doesn’t just affect the cost of mortgages and car loans. It ...

The Senate on Monday voted 68 to 29 to confirm Scott Bessent to be President Trump’s Treasury secretary, putting in ...