President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash ...

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are picking apart federal spending, trying to find areas of waste. Here’s a look at where all the money goes. The charts below are based on ...

The government fiscal year closes at the end of September, but this analysis will look at the calendar year budget.

The chart below demonstrates the staggering size of this irresponsibility. From March 2020 through June 2022, the federal government added $7 trillion in debt .

The raw numbers involved with federal budgeting are impossible to fully comprehend, which makes charts such as these so important. In fiscal year 2022, the federal deficit was the equivalent of ...

The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress. The totals are based on fiscal year 2023.

On a budget. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are picking apart federal spending, trying to find areas of waste. Here’s a look at where all the money goes. The charts below are ...