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The Trump administration is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as a result of its deferred resignation program, part of a large ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation edged higher in June, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday.

President Trump and Elon Musk have ramped up their on-again-off-again feud, with the tech mogul announcing that he has launched a new party, the America Party, after criticizing Trump’s tax and ...

Despite intense pressure from President Trump to cut interest rates, Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to keep rates unchanged when they conclude a two-day meeting tomorrow. But Fed ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for ...

Happy Monday! Politico's Brian Faler noted today that tax experts are struggling with an issue that has at times bedeviled us, too: Just how to refer to the recently passed Republican tax cut law ...

Happy Tuesday! President Trump hosted Philippine President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. at the White House today and announced a new trade deal calling for 19% tariffs on goods from the ...

Aiming to rewire the global trading system to more explicitly benefit the United States, President Trump gave countries around the world until August 1 to negotiate new trade agreements with the ...

President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a meeting with Senate Republicans Wednesday night insisting that, whether it’s in one bill or two, his agenda will get enacted — but his comments made ...

An array of tax and spending proposals put forth by former President Donald Trump would raise the federal budget deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis ...