White House budget director Russell Vought told House lawmakers on Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn’t yet have a “ballpark” estimate of how much supplemental funding it will seek for the ...

Good evening. President Trump is calling for a massive increase in defense spending, and the labor market is showing new signs of health. Details below. Trump Calls for Massive Increase in Military ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

President Trump wants to increase defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal year 2027, for a total of $1.5 trillion, according to his budget request released Friday. At the same ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

The war against Iran will drive the U.S. inflation rate up to an estimated 4.2% this year, according to new projections by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In its latest ...

On Wednesday, President Obama endorsed the idea of “promise zones,” a variation of the old Republican idea of enterprise zones. These new zones—located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, ...

The Defense Department has failed its first-ever comprehensive audit, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Thursday, according to multiple reports. “We failed the audit, but we never ...

President Trump on Thursday released the outline of a new healthcare plan that largely repackages several familiar proposals aimed at lowering insurance premiums and prescription drug prices under a ...

When Congress eliminated earmark spending a few years ago there was a legitimate question about whether the Congressional Pig Book – the much-anticipated annual report from Citizens Against Government ...

The International Monetary Fund said Thursday that it expects to lower its growth projections for the global economy this year due to the war in the Middle East. IMF Managing Director Kristalina ...