Conservatives have been holding out against the major tax and spending cut package to implement President Trump’s agenda, ...

P resident Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill could come with a big, ugly cost, economists warn.

Republican tax bill could cost $3.8 trillion over 10 years as its tax cuts surpass spending reductions, according to one ...

Budget hawks have been warning about America's national debt since the 1980s as it grew larger than anybody ever thought ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about America's federal debt, which is at $36 trillion and growing.