That cost jumps closer to $4 trillion once rising interest payment costs are taken into account, according to fiscal experts.

Good evening. The Senate's rules referee sent Republicans scrambling today by determining that critical elements of their big bill don't meet the strict rules surrounding the reconciliation ...

Good evening. President Donald Trump just announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran that he said he hopes will become permanent. That news comes after Iran launched a missile attack on the Al ...

Worries about rising debt: Asked about the Congressional Budget Office projection that the legislation would increase the national debt by about $3 trillion over 10 years, 63% of Americans ...

The sweeping Republican tax-and-spending bill that would deliver on much of President Donald Trump's agenda would increase deficits by about $2.8 trillion over 10 years, once its economic effects ...

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Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 ...

* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals.Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves.

President Joe Biden is ending his term in office with a remarkably strong labor market. According to data released Friday by the Labor Department, employers added a surprising 256,000 jobs in ...