Numbers reveal what the public thinks of Trump and what he's done during the first year of his return to the presidency ...

In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...

Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...

The federal budget gap narrowed more sharply than forecasters anticipated in November, offering a rare piece of good news in a fiscal landscape still dominated by red ink. The monthly shortfall came ...

The U.S. national debt surpassed another historic milestone as it topped $38 trillion for the first time this week, as the federal government continues to rack up debt at a record-setting pace. New ...

The U.S. government spent $173 billion more than it collected in revenues in November. But as bad as that sounds and is, it is nevertheless better than the $193 billion deficit posted in October and ...