"We won’t be able to fix the debt without touching Social Security, Medicare, defense, or revenue—the math just doesn’t work. And we can’t count on heroic growth rates or crashing interest rates," ...

Donald Trump's claim that he cut the federal budget deficit by 27% in one year is false, as there are no credible sources to ...

Trump's debt diet is working, and we are seeing the positive impacts on the federal budget deficit. The debt is shrinking.

President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, had the ...

The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on Friday under the name of President Donald Trump. Trump criticized experts who warned that his tariff policies would cause economic destruction, writing ...

President Donald Trump proposed on Wednesday the biggest US tax overhaul in three decades, calling for tax cuts for most ...

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, ran the numbers exclusively for Fortune.

Prior to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump’s “growth” math stood a chance of closing the gap. Now it’s much ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly framed his sweeping tariffs as a kind of magic bullet for America's finances, promising they would shrink the trade gap and help wipe out Washington's red ink.

The highest nationwide estimate puts U.S. fraud losses at $521 billion. Even if all of that could be recouped, it would amount to less than a third of the 2025 deficit of $1.775 trillion. See the ...

Donald Trump’s tariffs are undercutting US firms, increasing costs, and scaring away foreign buyers and investment.