The U.S. government posted a higher $284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed and impacted by the recent federal ...

US deficit rises as entitlement and debt costs soar, despite higher tariffs. Learn why reform is crucial for fiscal stability ...

We're continuing to track the big tax and spending bill winding its way through Congress, which would add $2.4 trillion to the U.S. government deficit over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States' deficit hit $1.3 trillion in the first half of the fiscal year with the federal government on track to reach its $1.9 trillion projection by fiscal year's end. The ...

Federal figures show only a slight deficit drop from last year, and the gap grew during Trump’s time in office ...

Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives. That may have been true at one time, but that hasn’t been so for decades. The change began in the 1970s, when Jude Wanniski came up with the “two Santas” ...

The federal government ran a $345 billion deficit for the month of August, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Treasury Thursday. The figure exceeded expectations, as economists had forecast a ...

In the world’s biggest bond market, investors are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s tax-cut plan. On Wednesday, they drove yields on benchmark 30-year Treasuries to as high as 5.1%, ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's government posted a primary budget deficit of 59.124 billion reais ($10.9 billion) in July, Treasury data showed on Thursday, more than six times the deficit from the year ...

The Trump administration and Congress have struggled mightily to pass a budget bill that could stop the flow of red ink. At the same time, 42 million former students are now required to start paying ...