The U.S. is projected to run a budget deficit of at least $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026, according to Treasury Department ...

Nearly two-thirds of adults told the Pew Research Center recently that the budget shortfall is a very big problem for the ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States' deficit for the current fiscal year is increasing at a lower rate compared to the prior year, with the federal government ending January with a nearly $697 billion gap ...

The U.S. economy is increasingly propped up by federal deficit spending, which, by one estimate, effectively adds about $15,000 per household to the economy each year. Federal deficit spending became ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States' annual deficit exceeded $1.1 trillion during the first six months of the ongoing fiscal year, around $139 billion less compared to the first half of fiscal 2025. The ...

President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, had the ...

Eliminating Social Security's deficit would cut the federal government's primary deficit in half. It would also make Americans happy. Recently, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to slash the national deficit and curb debt during his second term, but a sobering assessment of the nation’s financial health by one of the federal ...

(The Center Square) - The United States federal budget deficit totaled $1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The latest federal ...