generosity. “Canada’s been very tough to deal with over the years, and it’s not fair that we should have a 200 or 250 billion dollar (trade) deficit,” said Trump, referring to the small trade imbalance created by U.S. demand for Canadian energy exports. (As of 2023, Canada’s ...
Quietly, just before the calendar turned for the new year, an already whopping debt tentatively owed by President-elect Donald Trump and co-defendants in his New York civil fraud case hit an eye-popping, interest-accumulating milestone: half a billion dollars.Trump, two of his sons and a for...
Another highlight from the Oval Office press conference was when the president called on China and Russia to join the United States in agreeing to cut their enormous defense budgets in half. He said in the context of also urging the three major powers to restart nuclear arms control talks. ...
‘targeted reductions’ across the federal government, combined with measures to ensure 3 percent economic growth to eliminate the federal deficit. Part of those targeted reductions includes about a third of U.S. diplomacy and aid budgets, and about $1 billionfrom U.N. peacekeeping,according to ...
State budgets enacted for the current year assume a collective 1.9% increase in general fund revenues, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. But from July through November — the first five months of the budget year in most states — total state tax revenues declined ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he's asking every Cabinet secretary to trim their next-year budgets by 5 percent, dubbing it the "nickel plan."
ThirdWay noted that Americans should expand their budgets to plan to pay at least an additional $185 per year on groceries and a whopping $551 more per year atbig box storessuch as Target, Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc. While Trump is adamant in his belief that tariffs wit...
Polling has become markedly more expensive over the past two decades, while media outlets’ budgets are increasingly strained. So it’s not surprising that the polls that typically populate the Sunday morning public-affairs shows or the Sunday papers have become rarer. Still, the dearth of public...
With 15 days left until Election Day, there is still an overall lack of quality polling in swing states, POLITICO reported over the weekend, as polling has become more expensive and media outlets have tighter budgets. The Post poll also asked voters which candidate they tru...
Trump administration. Under the new stopgap spending bill congressional leaders are trying to clear this week, the next government shutdown deadline will be pushed to March 14, keeping budgets mostly static for the military and federal agencies well into the fiscal year that kicked off in October...