Zooming out and looking over the history of the budget back to 2016 shows a more complete picture. The change since Covid is ...

The U.S. government posted a $145 billion budget deficit ‌for December, up 67% or $58 billion from a year earlier due to ...

The U.S. government reported a $145 billion budget deficit for December, a 67% increase from the previous year. The rise is ...

Another challenge is that fraud is not easy to root out entirely. Historically, "only a small percentage of tax dollars lost to fraud are ever actually recovered by the government," said Bob ...

"In the financialized U.S. economy, each dollar of deficit spending may flow into a dollar of corporate profit." ...

For the second straight year, Maryland legislators arrive in Annapolis with a budget shortfall of more than $1 billion. But ...