Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the House bill addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be ...

As we can imagine, that federal spending has been a large driver of the post pandemic recovery that we’ve seen in the state, through these two channels,” he said. Alaska’s aging population ...

Hochul is blaming Republicans in Congress for potential federal cuts to Medicaid, but the state’s spending on the program is off the charts and ... meant as a safety-net program to cover basic ...

First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday in D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Perhaps the best analogy for the first three ...

Republicans love to claim they will cut “out-of-control” federal spending. They say it often enough many believe out of control spending actually exists. Except it doesn’t. Since Ronald Reagan took ...

A bipartisan group of Congress members is introducing a bill to increase transparency regarding federal spending. The Stop Secret Spending Act targets federal spending labeled “other transaction ...

and federal government spending is currently being counted as a net positive for first-quarter GDP growth. Musk’s DOGE has so far had no noticeable impact on overall federal spending ...

Federal agencies and departments are spending more of your money than ever — far above the rate of inflation over the past quarter-century, despite headcount dwindling by as much as 26.7% from ...

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 ...

THE BIGGEST PIECES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING COME FROM THINGS THAT ARE MANDATORY TO SPEND MONEY ON, RIGHT? YEAH. SO ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF FEDERAL SPENDING COMES FROM SO-CALLED MANDATORY ...

Health care is an inviting target for budget cutters in Washington. One of every four dollars in federal spending in fiscal year 2024 was used to pay for health programs and services. The next ...

RUNAWAY federal spending is a conservative myth, Mark Fernald asserted in a Feb. 15 op-ed. The real cause of the deficit is Republican tax cutting, he claimed. Thankfully the federal government ...