The national debt has increased under most U.S. presidents. Here is how much each president's time in office added to the U.S. debt by percentage and dollar amounts.

The scale of Biden’s executive spending is hard to convey. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that ...

The U.S. posted a record trade deficit in good in 2024, spotlighting what is likely to be running sore spot under the second ...

while the Obama administration approved nearly $5 trillion between 2009 and 2017. This pattern of increased deficits has continued under Biden. As of September 2024, the Biden administration had ...

The gap has narrowed under President Biden, but not by nearly enough to curtail the nation’s ballooning debt. In fiscal 2023, the budget deficit remained 6.2% of GDP.

After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.

A dip into historical data shows that the stock market has responded differently under Republican and Democrat presidents.

High trade deficits have confounded presidents for more than three decades ... the U.S. trade deficit registered just under $40 billion. By the time he left in January 2021, the gap has widened ...

But the deficit and national debt were ballooning ... election in no small part due to inflation hitting a 41-year high under President Joe Biden. While Trump is not blameless in the inflationary ...

During a Q&A Thursday with the World Economic Forum, one of the panelists asked President Trump about China: "We know that ...

President Donald Trump repeated false claims about the US trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual Thursday ...