Social Security remains one of the largest federal spending categories, while net interest on the national debt is the ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports ...

Congress has less than two weeks to extend a federal funding deadline, but lawmakers are arguing over whether the White House ...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product ...

Government spending is tied up with consumer and business spending. Not reporting it as part of GDP would breach global accounting standards.

DOGE’s wild rampage is the major sticking point in talks over a deal and he could blow up any such agreement by riling up a ...

Government spending makes up 6% of total gross domestic product. And besides, spending cuts come with economic ripple effects ...

"The more immediate problem is this March 14 deadline to do something about federal funding for the current fiscal year," said Loren Duggan.

The minority party’s only leverage is to refuse to keep the government open without assurances that DOGE will be reined in.

Top Democratic appropriators said Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon bipartisan spending talks and ...

The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for  ~$40B of ...

December, picking up on increased government and consumer spending, official data showed on Friday, and the government said ...