Explainer-Why would the US government shut down?
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if ...
Trump and Johnson Push a Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert a Shutdown
Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump ...
US Commerce Secretary wants to remove government spending from GDP
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product ...
US job cuts surge 245% in February due to federal government layoffs
The government has laid off about 62,530 workers in the first two months of the year, a whopping 41,311% increase compared to the same period in 2024.
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic ...
Government shutdown looms as Trump tries to assert new spending powers
Congress has less than two weeks to extend a federal funding deadline, but lawmakers are arguing over whether the White House ...
Trump, tariffs and potential defense spending surge overshadow European Central Bank meeting
The bank's monetary policy statement and post-meeting news conference by President Christine Lagarde will be scrutinized for ...
Yes, Cutting Government Waste Is Important
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) draws two extreme reactions from budget-focused observers. On one side, you ...
US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009
The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level ...
Germany's defense and government spending boost triggered a global bond sell-off
On Wednesday, 10-year German bonds saw the worst day since March 1990 — just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall.