Over the past 60 years, nearly every U.S. president has run a record budget deficit at some point ... as each president’s budget reflected the administration’s priorities for the country.

Caught between the debt and their tax base, Republicans are considering some novel ways to account for the cost of their ...

The U.S. trade deficit hit near-record levels in late 2024 as America's trading partners prepare to navigate Trump's tariffs.

Ross Perot was in many ways a precursor to President-elect Donald Trump ... Perot may have run long informercials showing charts about deficit spending and the national debt, a way around the ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors. Amid much talk about the problem ...

Is a quarter of the national debt attributable to budget deficits accumulated during the first Trump administration? Several viral posts claim that 25 percent of U.S. debt is the result of ...

Canada typically sells more goods and services to the United States than it buys, an issue — or non-issue, according to ...