List of U.S. Federal Budgets & Deficits articles
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Phillip Swagel, director of the Congressional Budget Office. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Leaves the Congressional Budget Office Battling for Relevance
A non-partisan panel of experts shaping policy, in this economy?
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U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich shrugs in a photo. How Republicans Became the Anti-Tax Party
Today’s budget policies owe a great deal to the Bush-Gingrich showdown of 1990.
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An elderly man and woman sit on the ground, the man on his knees as he sorts through something on the ground. Behind him are a rusted cart and bicycle in front of a paint-smeared concrete wall and a battered corrugated metal sign with the words USAID: From the American people" on it. What Trump’s New Budget Says About U.S. Foreign Policy
The president wants to significantly pull back on many of America’s traditional global engagements while spending more on the border and defense.
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Donald Trump is seen in profile as he walks in front of a crowd of reporters with cameras and microphones poised. Trump wears a navy blue suit and red tie; the room behind him is large and decorated ornately with carved white walls and gold curtains. Trump’s Defense Plans Are a Reagan Redux
Both men granted the Pentagon blank checks to spend on their outlandish national-security obsessions.
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Pedestrians sit at a bus shelter where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. national debt per person and as a nation, in Washington, D.C. Is the U.S. Facing a Debt Crisis?
Trump policies expected to push soaring debt even higher.
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The silhouette of a person is seen against a safety door and grafitti in front of a shuttered business. Wood and construction fencing are seen in the foreground. The U.S. Budget Deficit Has Rocketed. Does It Matter?
Germany and Britain have lower shortfalls, but their economies aren’t better off.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears before reporters with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. America’s Budget Dysfunction Has Geopolitical Costs
Congressional performance artists are holding U.S. foreign policy hostage.
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An Afghan laborer arranges food aid bags provided by an NGO for distribution at a gymnasium in Kabul. The Taliban Have ‘Infiltrated’ U.N. Deliveries of Aid
An as-yet-unpublished U.S. government report highlights the importance of aid diversion to Taliban finances.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is greeted by members of the U.S. Congress as he arrives to deliver a joint address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. How Ukraine Can Avoid Afghanistan’s Aid Sinkhole
Rumblings are growing on Capitol Hill about oversight of more than $100 billion in U.S. assistance to Kyiv.
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Reporters holding cell phones and microphones crowd around McCarthy inside the U.S. Capitol. The Debt Ceiling Deal Highlights America’s Warped Priorities
By failing to invest in its own people, the United States shows the world the shakiness of the foundations of its power.
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Mark Milley is shown from the side in uniform, sitting before a microphone. DoD’s Making a List—and Checking It Twice
The Pentagon’s warfighting commands have sent billions in wish lists to Congress. Some lawmakers want to give them a lump of coal.
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The Pentagon is seen in Arlington, Virginia, on March 8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Biden’s Defense Budget
Republican lawmakers say it’s dead on arrival.
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Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita takes part in a virtual meeting with his U.S. and Israeli counterparts from his office in Rabat, Morocco, on Dec. 22, 2021. Morocco’s Diplomatic Morass
Despite Washington’s about-face on Western Sahara, the erstwhile darling of U.S. policy circles is more isolated than ever.
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An Indian Youth Congress activist takes part in a protest against rising fuel prices in Siliguri, India, on Feb. 26. Specter of Stagflation Hangs Over Emerging Markets
Rich countries’ pandemic policies are sucking growth and capital out of the developing world.
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1-Fuzzynomics-foreign-policy-3-2 Fuzzynomics and 12 Other Attempts to Name Our New Era
We asked leading economists and thinkers to define the post-pandemic age.
