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

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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.

Now the money is gone and the problems aren’t fixed—and residents fear they may permanently lose control of their water.

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

The federal budget deficit is back in the spotlight after the Republican-controlled Congress approved a massive tax and ...

The Government Growing Government virus (the GGG virus) can get awfully nasty too. Little things like the fireworks display ...