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WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at a congressional hearing on Mar. 14 and rejected the arguments that it is "short-term sugar high." Mnuchin testified ...

WASHINGTON—The White House's top budget official defended the president’s new budget proposal on March 12, saying that “the problem is ...

WASHINGTON­—The White House unveiled a new budget resolution calling for a significant cut to federal government spending. The proposal aims to ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a projected $2.3 billion budget shortfall on Feb. 4, in what looks ...

BERLIN—Germany is facing a budget shortfall of around 25 billion euros ($29 billion) by 2023 as an economic ...

WASHINGTON—The latest economic outlook by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that if spending continues at the projected ...

WASHINGTON—As part of an effort to fix the nation’s ineffective budget process and prevent government shutdowns, three Republican ...

This is not our first partial government shutdown. Somehow, someway, from 1976 through 2017, the nation has survived ...

President Sergio Mattarella, who has sought to rein in Italy’s populist leaders, took the government to task for ...

MILAN—The Italian government won a grueling vote of confidence on its 2019 budget in the upper house in ...

The U.S. government has officially begun a partial shutdown after the House and Senate failed to reach an ...

The controversial probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election has cost taxpayers more than $25 million. Special ...

The U.S. economy is doing quite well. Yet Republicans didn’t fare as well in the midterm elections as ...

The federal fall fiscal update not having a roadmap to a balanced budget grabbed most of the headlines, ...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte insisted his government has no “Plan B” for its budget as the European ...

MILAN—The Italian government expects the European Commission to decide for the first time ever on Oct. 23 to ...

President Donald Trump, citing "our nation's fiscal situation," announced that a pay boost for civilian federal employees that ...

Italy's economy minister has urged the ruling coalition's two political leaders to tone down their comments on the ...

SYDNEY—Australia's independent One Nation party said on Tuesday it will no longer support the government's proposed corporate tax ...

The remnants of winter are still nipping at our feet, but we’re already looking ahead to the summer—dreams ...

OTTAWA—Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to unveil a restrained budget on Tuesday, with just enough spending ...

WASHINGTON—Fiscal conservatives think the federal spending bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law, is far from ideal ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and the Senate's top Democrat leader on Friday failed to reach an agreement to avoid ...

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives passed a funding bill late Thursday to keep the government open for another four ...

WASHINGTON—Congress has little time left to come up with a permanent solution for the budget to avert a ...

President Donald Trump signed a two-week funding bill on Dec. 8, preventing a government shutdown hours before the ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget resolution for the 2018 fiscal year on Oct. 26, moving ...