Rep. Brendan Boyle urges the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to detail the price of the war 'under several scenarios.

Less tariff revenue means that the federal government needs to borrow more, so outlays for interest will be $0.4 trillion ...

Most of the costs are not budgeted for, meaning the Pentagon will need to request more funding soon, researchers say.

One problem I have with cost-of-war calculations is that they really do ignore the counterfactual,” Kent Smetters of the Penn ...

A new CSIS report reveals the US military campaign against Iran has cost an estimated $3.7 billion in its first 100 hours, with most of this spending unbudgeted. The daily cost is approximately $891.4 ...

The escalating conflict in Iran has thrust foundational legal questions about the president's war powers into the spotlight. Here are answers.

Trump's order allows "Department of War" as a secondary title, but legally it remains the Department of Defense unless Congress changes law.

Twenty-four US states have sued the Trump administration over tariffs imposed after the Supreme Court outlawed its original ...

During the pandemic, Medicaid became a lifeline for millions of families. If you lost a job, had hours cut, or just needed ...

The US military is best served by steady and consistent growth in defense spending rather than sugar-high splurges.

The big tax-cut law signed last year by Trump is financed, in part, by sweeping Medicaid changes intended to cut government ...

Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP. Reps. Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and ...