By Lydia DePillis When it comes to the federal payroll, two seemingly contradictory things are true. One, the Biden administration went on a hiring spree that expanded the government work force at ...

The idea that business leaders can transform the way government works didn’t start with Elon musk, but success in politics ...

As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are promising to slash at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.

The diagram above of federal financial regulators and their ... Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the president ...

While 2024 was a record revenue year, it was also a record spending year; spending is growing faster. Read more here.

The federal government collected revenues of $4.9 trillion in 2022—equal to 19.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) (figure 2). Over the past 50 years, federal revenue has averaged 17.4 percent ...

Spending on contracting and supplies is the second-biggest major spending group for the federal government, according to usaspending.gov. More than $1.1 trillion was spent on deals negotiated by ...

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...

The U.S. government has less than three weeks to raise its debt limit before it will need to take “extraordinary measures” to sustain federal operations, Treasury Secretary Janet L.

Those opposed to the Federal Reserve note that the U.S. Constitution does not specifically say a central bank is necessary; it also does not say the government has the right to create a central bank.

Even among those who support efforts to streamline the government and make it more efficient, some fear the effort will be ham-handed. One concern among federal workers is that DOGE will suggest ...