The federal civilian workforce shrank by nearly 256,000 employees, 11. 3%, across every major agency in 2025, a government ...

The federal government had a $292.6 billion monthly deficit in May, bringing the total deficit for the first eight months of fiscal 2026 to more than $1.2 trillion.

Debt held by the public will balloon to more than $56 trillion by 2036 as annual deficits continue to mount, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office. By later this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking at the average monthly deficit, January and February were both worse than average, whereas March was slightly better. The latest quarter was slightly better than last Q2 and also better than ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. national debt is the accumulation of money borrowed to cover the national deficit over time. The highest level of ...