A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzing payroll data found a 435% increase in federal agencies’ use...
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The absence of two key Senate Republicans has complicated the Trump administration’s ambitions to pass budget appropriations and increase defense...
AI could shave $2.2 trillion off the U.S. deficit by 2036. But according to a new working paper from economists...
After nearly four months of fighting, a blockade of one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors, a threat of “annihilation”...
Near Thackerville, Oklahoma, a town on the Texas border with fewer than 500 residents, what started as a small roadside...
Following the 2003 Iraq war, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the U.S. had spent $500 billion in direct costs...
The U.S. government has a lot to pay for at the moment: in addition to mandatory spending like Social Security,...
The problem with an increasing debt burden is that it costs more to maintain it: This is precisely the issue...
Last October, the scene of demolition crews using a backhoe to tear down the East Wing of the White House...