It’s a critical day in President Donald Trump ’s drive to thin out the federal workforce.

Budget resolutions can provide reconciliation instructions for legislation that changes federal spending, changes federal revenue, changes the federal debt limit, or some combination of the three.

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The next federal surplus did not occur until 1998, when President Bill Clinton reached a landmark budget deal with Congress that resulted in a $70 billion surplus. The surplus grew to $236 billion ...

Here are four easy steps to get started building your own budget with the 50/30/20 rule. Think of your budget like baking a pie. Your first step is to gather your ingredients—that means understanding ...

And even just listening to you right now, a budget being a reflection of a healthy democracy is really what it sounds like your approach is, in part, and that a federal budget can and should help ...

Telework and remote work are tools that have helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency," said Kelley, citing Office of Management and Budget statistics that only 10% of ...

Several Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives in December unsuccessfully sought to increase the debt limit by $1.5 trillion when enacting the current temporary federal budget that ...

released its latest 10-year budget and economic outlook Friday that showed the federal government is on track to break a debt record set nearly 80 years ago. The CBO's outlook shows that ...

Even if those tax breaks are allowed to lapse at year’s end, the federal budget deficit will still climb to $2.7 trillion in a decade, according to the CBO’s latest outlook, released Friday.

through the federal budget." Related stories Even on the campaign trail, President-elect Trump hinted that future funding for wildfires could hinge on California's policies. "We're going to take ...

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