National debt

German Enlightenment Immanuel Kant argued in his 1795 essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, that nations should conduct…

The confrontation was inevitable. When White House budget director Russell Vought appeared before the House Budget Committee on…

Following the 2003 Iraq war, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected the U.S. had spent $500 billion in…

President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, released Friday, calls for boosting total defense funding to $1.5 trillion—a…

Budget hawks in Washington have their eyes trained on April 3, when the White House is scheduled to…

The year was 1974 and President Richard Nixon had dispatched his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi…

Wars are expensive. Besides causing a lot of killing, terror, and mayhem, wars also take huge bites out…

The United States national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time this week, arriving at the grim…

The United States was already on an unsustainable fiscal trajectory, adding to the national debt at breakneck speed,…

On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office released its closely-watched, 10-year projections for the U.S. budget, this addition…

A landmark Supreme Court ruling against President Trump’s tariffs has cost the federal government an estimated $1.7 trillion…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party…

Something is different about Trump’s $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says