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US budget

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Trump scraps plan to freeze federal loans and grants after backlash

    President rescinds order to halt payments to US government programmes

    Donald Trump giving a speech
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US Senate votes through last-gasp bill to keep government open

    Funding measure gets bipartisan backing after days of bickering on Capitol Hill

    The US Capitol in Washington
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    A fiscal fight is brewing in the court of Donald Trump

    America’s debt pile and the case for tax cuts will be flashpoints inside the new administration

    An elephant’s foot hovers over a tiny red Lego elephant
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US government shutdown
    US government shutdown looms after House rejects Trump-backed funding bill

    Congress faces Friday night deadline after president-elect helped kill initial draft legislation

    The US Capitol is seen behind a red traffic light
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US government nears shutdown after Trump attacks funding bill

    President-elect’s intervention raises odds of federal closures by weekend

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Markets InsightTiffany Wilding
    Trump has options to mitigate the rising US budget deficit

    While the long-term trajectory of the fiscal debt will probably remain a concern, there are some potential incremental actions the incoming president could take

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  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Michael Strain
    Harris and Trump are equally silent on the expanding US debt

    The nation is borrowing to finance current consumption rather than to make much-needed long-term investments

    Donald Trump shakes hands with Kamala Harris on stage
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    The US budget is like an aggressive leveraged finance deal

    Trajectory of America’s debt burden feels unsustainable

    A worker mans a crane beneath the National Debt Clock after it was restarted July 11, 2002 in New York City.
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Global Economy
    US deficit poses ‘significant risks’ to global economy, warns IMF

    Fund also cites concerns over fiscal ‘imbalances’ in UK, China and Italy

    The US Treasury building
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    The tree of debt must stop growing

    Since the era of ultra-low interest rates ended, large-scale government borrowing is looking more and more problematic

    James Ferguson illustration of a debt time bomb.
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    How dominant is fiscal dominance? Premium content

    And replies on UK stocks

  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Oren Cass
    How Republicans learnt to love bigger government

    A growing body on the right now believe that Medicare and other programmes must not be cut at all

    A nurse checks a patient at a hospital in New Jersey. Only one in five Republicans say they’d like to see the government do less to provide ‘medical care for those who need help affording insurance’
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    US faces Liz Truss-style market shock as debt soars, warns watchdog

    Fiscal burden on ‘unprecedented’ path, says independent Congressional Budget Office head

    Phillip Swagel sitting at an event
  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
    Biden proposes higher taxes, spending and debt in $7.3tn budget

    Plan offers stark contrast with Donald Trump’s economic plans ahead of November’s presidential election

    Joe Biden
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    US deficit to soar to $2.6tn in 10 years, says congressional watchdog

    Budget office points to surge in government debt costs after pandemic-era fiscal splurge to prop up economies

    The US Treasury building in Washington
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US Congress passes spending bill to avert government shutdown

    Short-term funding measure will give lawmakers chance to negotiate Ukraine aid deal

    The US Capitol building
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    US government shutdown
    Lawmakers to vote on stopgap measure to fund US government until March

    Continuing resolution would give divided Congress more time to pass budget under threat of a shutdown

  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Economists Exchange
    Stephanie Kelton: ‘Inflation has come down in spite of the Fed, not because of it’

    The US economist on how boosting supply is a better way out of the inflation trap than crimping demand

    Illustration of Brooke Masters and Stephanie Kelton
  • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
    US Congress leaders reach $1.66tn spending deal ahead of feared shutdown

    Agreement between Republicans and Democrats comes weeks before another funding deadline

    Capitol Hill
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    Oren Cass
    Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’

    Presidential hopefuls criticising the expansion of national debt under Trump should think again

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    US government shutdown
    US on brink of shutdown as Republicans defeat funding bill

    Dissidents’ vote against their party’s own stop-gap measure is blow to House Speaker McCarthy as Saturday budget deadline looms

    Kevin McCarthy
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    US government shutdown
    Moody’s warns federal shutdown would be ‘negative’ for US debt rating

    Report comes as hopes for congressional deal to avert crisis fade

    A sign in the US Capitol tells visitors that the building is closed for all tours
  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    US government shutdown
    Lawmakers warn that US is heading for shutdown as budget talks stall

    The economy could take a hit in less than a week if hardline Republic holdouts do not strike a deal

    Kevin McCarthy
  • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
    US government shutdown
    US government heads for shutdown as Republicans squabble over spending

    Millions will be furloughed in a week’s time if no deal is struck with small group of conservative holdouts

    Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters at the Capitol
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    Unhedged Podcast18 min listen
    The central bankers’ rodeo

    We look at new papers published at the central bankers’ summit in Jackson Hole

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