U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

Projections from the National Treasury reveal that South Africa's government debt, currently standing at R5. 2 trillion, is ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise discussed Republicans' plans to grapple with several fiscal deadlines on the horizon.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with ...

President Donald Trump filled a key role in his cabinet Monday when the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent, a Wall Street veteran ...

With the national debt above $36 trillion, newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to rein in government ...

Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

The United States approaches another debt ceiling deadline in January 2025, and the Treasury Department has already sent ...

In this edition of the Hot Seat, Mike Murphy from the Committee for Responsible Budget Policy addresses the $36 trillion ...

Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s ...

In this article the author focuses on Ukraine’s debt since the 1990s and more particularly in the years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.