House GOP spending bills pack billions in earmarks, sparking backlash from fiscal hawks

Spending bills include over 3,000 earmarks, totaling $6.5 billion and drawing conservative criticism despite bipartisan ...
Government Executive

Major takeaways for federal agencies from the latest bipartisan spending package

Congress has unveiled a new package of bills to fund some agencies through fiscal 2026, the latest bipartisan breakthrough as ...

Here’s How Government Spending Has Grown—and Where the Money Is Going

No matter how you measure it, the U.S. government is spending significantly more than it did a decade ago. As President ...
City Journal

The Return of Trade-Offs

In October 2024, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen addressed the Council on Foreign Relations to tout the Biden administration’s “modern supply-side economics.” She argued that more government ...
Forbes

Government Spending Saps Growth While Warping Those Who Drive It

Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words, ...
Marketplace

Federal workers’ salaries represent less than 5% of federal spending and 1% of GDP

Layoffs are at their highest level since 2020 thanks in part to the Department of Government Efficiency’s attempt to cull the federal workforce. U.S. employers announced more than 172,000 job cuts ...