The unprecedented funding request comes as the president has pursued military action across Latin America and is threatening ...

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to pay down the national debt within eight years. Instead, the debt ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly framed his sweeping tariffs as a kind of magic bullet for America's finances, promising they would shrink the trade gap and help wipe out Washington's red ink.

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the federal deficit has declined by $516 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. Spending is basically flat, but revenue is up a remarkable 8.5 ...

As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President ...

Trump’s most dramatic economic policy shift has been toward trade protectionism. The president increased tariffs in 2025 to ...

The U.S. government spent $173 billion more than it collected in revenues in November. But as bad as that sounds and is, it is nevertheless better than the $193 billion deficit posted in October and ...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall ...

The Department of Government Efficiency effort was one of the most consequential and controversial — if not entirely successful — changes the Trump administration made in 2025.

Trump promotes reduced trade deficit and tariff revenue as economic successes. Some economists argue that these indicators do not reflect overall US economic health or growth. Economists told Business ...

Since President Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs pushed the U.S. bond market into revolt in April, his administration ...