The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic ...
Government shutdown looms as Trump tries to assert new spending powers
Congress has less than two weeks to extend a federal funding deadline, but lawmakers are arguing over whether the White House ...
US Commerce Secretary wants to remove government spending from GDP
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product ...
Here’s How Government Spending Has Grown—and Where the Money Is Going
Social Security remains one of the largest federal spending categories, while net interest on the national debt is the ...
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How Elon Musk Could Spark a Government Shutdown
DOGE’s wild rampage is the major sticking point in talks over a deal and he could blow up any such agreement by riling up a ...
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Are Democrats Already Surrendering on Government Spending?
The minority party’s only leverage is to refuse to keep the government open without assurances that DOGE will be reined in.
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One consequence of government spending cuts? Lower GDP
Government spending makes up 6% of total gross domestic product. And besides, spending cuts come with economic ripple effects ...
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Dems: Trump’s spending play raises ‘risk of a shutdown’
Top Democratic appropriators said Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon bipartisan spending talks and ...
US government spending has not slowed under Trump so far, data shows
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
The Government Needs Wealthy Consumer Spending To Keep GDP Growing
A new analysis shows that the top 10% of earners are behind almost half of all consumer spending, which is almost 70% of GDP.
Fact check: Eight ways Elon Musk has misled Americans about government spending
Elon Musk has repeatedly misled the public about federal spending while playing a leading role in President Donald Trump’s ...
Where things stand as Congress tries to avoid a partial government shutdown in two weeks
Negotiations to avoid a federal government shutdown in two weeks have not been going well. Lawmakers have yet to agree on ...