The Musk team’s estimated $150 billion in savings barely makes a dent in $6.8 trillion of expenditures largely on autopilot, ...

Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that private wage growth in January and February was outpaced by rising ...

A host of federal government agencies have overseen massive spending for years while greatly expanding their workforces, ...

Americans estimate the federal government wastes 59 cents of every dollar it spends, according to a new survey by the Cato ...

Despite Elon Musk's claims that the Department of Government Efficiency has saved $150 billion, federal spending under Trump's second term has increased by $154 billion, driven largely by rising ...

At the same time, to hide behind “economists ... MORE FOR YOU Moving to government spending, it can’t and doesn’t cause inflation. To believe it does implies not just market stupidity ...

How does the federal government allocate the trillions of dollars it spends every year? According to polls, the government spends a lot of money on foreign aid and welfare. But of course those polls ...

Peter Marocco, the new head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is reportedly considering sending criminal referrals to the Justice Department over the agency's potential misuse ...

U.S. shoppers stepped up their spending just a bit in February after a sharp pullback the previous month, signaling that Americans are shopping more cautiously as concerns about the direction of the ...

Elon Musk’s efforts to slash $1 trillion in federal spending adds another risk for battered tech investors, threatening to ...

As Congress hashes out spending and tax cuts, a Cato survey shows widespread public support for shrinking the scope of the federal government.