Browsing: government spending
The U.S. government has a lot to pay for at the moment: in addition to mandatory spending like Social Security,…
The U.S. spends $88B a month in interest on national debt, equal to defense and education spending
The problem with an increasing debt burden is that it costs more to maintain it: This is precisely the issue…
A $400 million ballroom was just the beginning. Now, Trump plans to spend $174 million more
Last October, the scene of demolition crews using a backhoe to tear down White House’s East Wing was so dramatic…
Federal health care spending has reached a historic turning point. It is now the single largest category of federal expenditures,…
America’s debt problem just got worse by $2 trillion with the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling
The Supreme Court ruled a large swathe of the Trump administration’s tariffs unconstitutional on Friday. It might make the average…
The ‘alternative scenario’ of an even bigger national debt disaster is in play after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s extensive use of tariffs during his first year back in office…
National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist—and it might push the U.S. into an outright depression
The government’s $38.5 trillion national debt is suffocating the American Dream, a leading economist has warned, and if a highly…
America’s $38 trillion national debt will exacerbate generational imbalance, says think tank
The United States’ current borrowing trajectory will place an “undue burden on future generations,” an economic think tank has warned,…
Families struggle to catch up after the shutdown hit SNAP, with some hitting up food banks and skipping Thanksgiving
She had it figured down to the last dollar. The looming insurance payment, balanced against the hard-earned paycheck. The cost…
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government
A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the…











