Who's going to be left holding the $400 billion bag? That's the ultimate question that undergirds the debate over the future ...

The president recently touted the idea, which came to a 30-year-old investor in a dream and caught the attention of Elon Musk ...

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., signaled he was not a fan of a proposal to send Americans stimulus checks with the money saved ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has implemented sweeping spending cuts across federal departments.

Eliminating all federal workers would reduce total spending by 5%, whereas people paid by the government who work for private businesses is three times larger.

President Donald Trump has called on the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, to be "more ...

An idea first proposed on social media has bubbled up to the White House and received President Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement: Take some of the savings from billionaire Elon Musk’s drive to cut ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said again that he wants a balanced budget, pushing Congress to do something that it ...

Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike ...

In an extraordinary move, Trump fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The dismissal of the ...

Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It seems to be a matter of faith among protectionists that trade deficits make the U.S. an economic loser. President Trump considers ...

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