Federal managers are under intense pressure to prove accountability. That is reasonable. But in practice, too many government systems now treat process compliance as a substitute for actual public ...

The U.S. federal budget serves as the central financial blueprint for government priorities, directing capital toward healthcare, retirement programs, and national defense. It functions by reconciling ...

The federal government partially shut down early Saturday as Congress did not agree on funding for several agencies before the midnight deadline. But this shutdown is likely to be less painful than ...

With a Jan. 30 funding deadline approaching, Congress faces a familiar standoff. Here’s when a shutdown could begin, what a CR would require, and what’s blocking a deal. The federal government’s ...

In 2023, when he was campaigning to win back the White House, President Donald Trump said he would reduce the federal budget. "Instead of growing the size and scope of the federal government … we will ...

The Federal Government publishes the spending and revenue numbers on a monthly basis. Looking at the average monthly deficit, both October and December were much larger than average, with November ...

The federal government’s mid-year budget update shows a modest improvement in the deficit forecast in 2025–26, but much of this comes from a larger-than-forecast tax take. The drivers of the $5 ...

A balanced federal budget in the United States is consistent with a massively bloated government operating well beyond its constitutional limits. This is what the budgetary experts at libertarian and ...

President Trump has reshaped the country’s economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire. By Andrew Duehren Reporting from Washington In the first year of his second term, President ...