Multnomah County employees notified of potential layoffs as budget cuts loom
Department leaders submitted proposed budgets Friday, which outlined 8%, 10% and 12% budget cuts as requested by Chair ...
US Budget Deficit Hits Record $840 Billion Over Past Four Months
The US federal budget gap widened to a record $840 billion for the first third of the fiscal year, propelled by spending ...
House Republicans Release a Roughly $3 Trillion Budget Outline
The initial plan calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and at least $1.5 trillion in spending reductions, along with an ...
Where US adults think the government is spending too much, according to AP-NORC polling
The perpetual challenge for lawmakers is that although U.S. adults mostly think the government isn't spending enough on key ...
US judge clears the way for tens of thousands of federal workers to take Trump buyout
The buyout is one of many approaches Trump is taking to slash a civilian workforce of 2.3 million that he has blasted as ...
Trump officials agree in court not to ax more US consumer finance watchdog jobs for now
President Donald Trump's administration has temporarily agreed not to fire any more staff at the U.S. Consumer Financial ...
Elon Musk Implausibly Claims 'Competence and Caring' Can Cut the Federal Budget Deficit in Half
Speaking to reporters for the first time since he took charge of the Trump administration's cost-cutting initiative, Elon ...
Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs
Federal workers were responding with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration’s latest effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay o ...
Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget
In the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have ...
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US estimated to have borrowed $127B in January: CBO
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 ...
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White House Forces Showdown Over Congress’s Power of the Purse
Vought to lead the powerful White House budget office is likely to escalate ... as well as the president’s efforts to gut the United States Agency for International Development.