Elon Musk's cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency have yet to reduce the federal deficit overall; ...

We're continuing to track the big tax and spending bill winding its way through Congress, which would add $2.4 trillion to the U.S. government deficit over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States' deficit hit $1.3 trillion in the first half of the fiscal year with the federal government on track to reach its $1.9 trillion projection by fiscal year's end. The ...

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The federal government ran a $345 billion deficit for the month of August, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Treasury Thursday. The figure exceeded expectations, as economists had forecast a ...

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said on a recent podcast that the U.S. could be headed towards a future "economic heart attack" without government action. He told Bloomberg’s "Odd Lots" ...

In the world’s biggest bond market, investors are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s tax-cut plan. On Wednesday, they drove yields on benchmark 30-year Treasuries to as high as 5.1%, ...

India's fiscal deficit in April-November was 9.8 trillion rupees ($109.09 billion) or 62.3% of the estimate for the financial ...