WASHINGTON, United States — The US budget deficit expanded significantly in the first six months of the fiscal year, according to Treasury Department data released Thursday. This came despite ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ...

The House voted on Thursday to pass a budget framework authored by Republicans in the Senate, after delays and negotiations between GOP leadership and hardline deficit hawks in their caucus.

The Thursday morning vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint – a key initial step in the long budget process – will eventually allow Republicans to muscle the president’s first big ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit has grown to more than $1.3 trillion in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year — the second highest six-month deficit on record, according to Treasury ...

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After failing to sway holdouts on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson managed to convince enough members to approve a budget blueprint on Thursday that includes some of the tax cuts President Donald Trump ...

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders canceled plans to vote on a revised budget blueprint Wednesday to begin work on President Donald Trump's sweeping legislative agenda as a key bloc of hard ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- SEPTA unveiled a budget proposal on Thursday that it says would include a reduction to nearly half of its service, fare increases of more than 20% and cuts to the workforce ...

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump’s tax cuts are set for permanent extension after the House narrowly passed a $5.8 trillion over ten years concurrent budget resolution that seemed poised ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that a House vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint will proceed later in the day, as scheduled, and that GOP leaders will ultimately secure enough ...