There are some very obvious reasons why Portland is facing what’s been put at (for now) a $25 million budget deficit. One of them is the new county library district, which the city estimates will cost ...

David Ditch is a senior policy analyst in budget policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. A recent report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget ...

The recently released Biden administration budget for 2024 was layered with problems. It doesn’t take the surging size of the national debt seriously; it views shaking down taxpayers as the solution ...

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said this week that they plan to target billions of dollars in “unauthorized” federal spending as part of their effort to trim waste from the budget. “DOGE will help end ...

Debt-ceiling discussions between the White House and congressional negotiators are focused on reining in outlays on the budget’s discretionary side, the type of spending that Congress is supposed to ...

Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised a House vote on a balanced federal budget. That’s a harder task than it sounds, given the size of the federal deficit. More ...

President Joe Biden has been engaging in extra-strength political spin by repeatedly taking credit for a reduction in the budget deficit. Yet this happened despite Biden’s policies, not because of ...