The Trump economic boom appears to be well underway, based on new figures released Thursday. The Federal Reserve Bank of ...

Meanwhile, the Peterson Foundation updated its projection: the U.S. would be spending more on defense than the next 35 ...

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to pay down the national debt within eight years. Instead, the debt ...

The unprecedented funding request comes as the president has pursued military action across Latin America and is threatening ...

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5 ...

Trump promotes reduced trade deficit and tariff revenue as economic successes. Some economists argue that these indicators do not reflect overall US economic health or growth. Economists told Business ...

Trump’s most dramatic economic policy shift has been toward trade protectionism. The president increased tariffs in 2025 to ...

The U.S. government spent $173 billion more than it collected in revenues in November. But as bad as that sounds and is, it is nevertheless better than the $193 billion deficit posted in October and ...

President Donald Trump is proposing setting U.S. military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous ...

The Department of Government Efficiency effort was one of the most consequential and controversial — if not entirely successful — changes the Trump administration made in 2025.