Trillion

by Casey Harper   The federal government reported hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in improper payments last fiscal year and trillions over the last two decades. According to a new report from the Government Accountability…

by Charlotte Hazard   President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion government spending package on Saturday averting a partial shutdown of the federal government.   He described the measure as “good news for the American people,” …

by Nicholas Ballasy   The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) a budget watchdog group, found that President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget would drive the national debt to $45.1 trillion or 106 percent of the U.S.…

by Ben Whedon   Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday announced plans to step down as GOP conference leader in November, marking an end to his more than 20-year stint in Senate leadership that saw the U.S. accumulate a…

Here, the Congressional Budget Office says that the increase in “immigration” will increase the GDP by $7 trillion over ten years, and increase federal tax collections by $1 trillion, and Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post just…

A million, a billion, a trillion… no big deal.  One can picture Dr. Evil from Austin Powers swapping out letters as Number 2 lets him know that he’s not demanding enough money.  It’s only an “m”, a “b”, or a “tr” right?  They’re only…

In a cavernous theater lit up with the green shapes of camels and palms at COP28 in Dubai, ecologist Thomas Crowther, former chief scientific adviser for the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign, was doing something he never would…

by Terence P. Jeffrey   The federal government’s debt increased by $2,238,422,431,416.43 in fiscal 2023, according to data published by the U.S. Treasury Department. On Sept. 30, 2022, the last day of fiscal 2022, the federal debt was…

For PBS NewsHour’s regular weekly recap on Friday with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, the news that the national debt surpassed $33 trillion was deemed so…

The federal debt has now increased more than $5 trillion during President Joe Biden’s administration, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury. When Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021, the total federal debt was…