Montana’s congressional delegation lauded the passage last week of the federal tax cut and spending package known as the “Big ...

President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s ...

Billionaire Elon Musk says he's forming a new political party after a spat with President Donald Trump. Just what does he ...

Microplastics fight | Keep up pressure | Step up. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for July 10, 2025.

The Administration's efforts to reshape Public Service Loan Forgiveness could affect thousands of nonprofit workers.

The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

Fellow citizens and working-class taxpayers, we have watched several financial crises unfold that the government has helped ...

The GOP deficit hawk is dead, after promising for years to rein in the country’s spiraling debt and deficits, but then voting last week to do the opposite.

For a country like the United States, with debt denominated in a local currency, “going broke” normally means that continued ...

High-income earners, corporations and defense contractors stand to gain while lower-income residents and immigrants will feel ...

As the last fireworks went silent on Independence Day 2025, the countdown began for a truly monumental anniversary: Next year ...