Conservatives who have spent decades promoting deep cuts to government are giving mixed reviews to the Department of ...

The US federal budget gap widened to a record $840 billion for the first third of the fiscal year, propelled by spending ...

Many U.S. adults believe the federal government is overspending. But polling also shows many Americans, including Republicans ...

Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding frozen even after judges last month temporarily blocked ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

The buyout is one of many approaches Trump is taking to slash a civilian workforce of 2.3 million that he has blasted as ...

Speaking to reporters for the first time since he took charge of the Trump administration's cost-cutting initiative, Elon ...

U.S. Senate Republicans released a budget plan on Friday that would boost funding for President Donald Trump's border ...

The ruling, issued at the request of several advocacy groups, meant the policy is now subject to two temporary restraining ...

The federal government is the nation's largest employer, yet the size of its workforce hasn't kept up with U.S. population growth, experts say.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a report on Monday that the federal government racked up a deficit of $127 billion last month. The CBO estimated the federal budget deficit ...

President Trump’s hiring freeze is affecting 18,000 federal firefighters from reporting to work, including coming to Southern ...