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DOGE is cutting government spending, but overall spending is still up and the deficit has increased. Learn what that means ...

President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over ...

Musk initially promised that he would eliminate $2 trillion of the $7 trillion federal budget, before scaling back his ambitions to $1 trillion, and then $150 billion. Even that revised target is ...

Congress is preparing to take up a new rescissions package next week that could slash billions in funding from international ...

Among those in households with layoffs, 45 percent are seriously considering leaving the D.C. area, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has blasted Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), comparing it to pre-WWII Nazi Germany ...

The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of ...

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the impact of Trump’s proposed budget cuts on biomedical research and ...