President Donald Trump and key Senate Republicans are still grasping for a solution to the US government closing in on ...

However big the bill, everyone agrees that it’s a lot of money that the bloated federal government doesn’t have.

In an attention-getting proposal attributed to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump aims to ...

But the effect of the agreement is to continue federal spending at the same exaggerated level that has recently prompted ...

The Louisiana senator has been tapped to consult with the president on a strategy for avoiding a federal default.

The United States federal government has spent more money than it has brought in nearly every year for the last half century ...

The Concord Coalition launched their new “fiscal responsibility" advocacy group, Concord Action, designed to pressure ...

The debate over the deal cast defense spending as an issue of growing urgency as doubts increase about the U.S. commitment to ...

While federal leaders had promised there will be little to no changes to how student loans and grants are handled, some ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer is finally earning some praise for his decision to cave on passing the House Republicans' bill to keep the ...

Warren Buffett once warned students about the perils of excessive borrowing, citing Donald Trump as a case in point. What ...

Investors are weighing whether Donald Trump might turn to unconventional ideas to try to bring the ballooning U.S. debt under ...