We explore what federal government spends its money on. By German Lopez and Ashley Wu Discussions about federal spending are difficult ... as a share of G.D.P. A chart shows federal debt as ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model makes that easy to do, cleaning up and analyzing raw data the ...

Expunging all government spending from GDP is another matter, as most federal spending in the ... economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business ...

Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to fall far short of even his most modest goal of shaving $150 billion from the federal ...

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are picking apart federal spending, trying to find areas of waste. Here’s a look at where all the money goes. The charts below are based on ...

In fact, excluding Social Security and Medicare spending, the rest of the federal government has shrunk when compared to our economy as a whole. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis keeps track of ...

The federal government spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare programs and services in 2024–the single largest category of federal spending. As President Donald Trump's budget proposal makes its way ...

Billionaire Elon Musk said the Department of Government Efficiency needs to examine the Federal Reserve's spending amid its cost-cutting push across the federal government. Tesla generated $13.97 ...

but are against a funding extension that they say empowers President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to continue cutting government staff and spending. The 99-page bill keeps the federal government ...

(TNND) — As Congress hashes out spending and tax cuts, a new survey from the Cato Institute shows widespread public support for shrinking the scope of the federal government. Americans estimate ...

2. Federal employees are on 6% of the federal budget The federal government will spend a little more than $400 billion paying its non-military executive branch employees this year, according to a ...