deficit

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government posted a December budget deficit of $144 billion—a record for the month—due to far higher outlays with CCP virus relief spending and unemployment benefits, while revenues ticked ...

The Treasury posts a record deficit for December. It's up over $100 billion dollars from a year ago. ...

News Analysis Economic forecasters say that Canada's provinces and other levels of government below the federal level are ...

Commentary Stephen Harper looks pretty good about now, doesn’t he? In the wake of Ottawa’s recent economic update, ...

Commentary When I was in elementary school, students viewed the arrival of vaccination day with great trepidation. Each ...

After an eight-month delay, the province of Ontario delivered a record-spending budget with no timetable to climb out ...

News Analysis Shortly after the throne speech on Sept. 23, Fitch Ratings said new spending pledges announced by ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. budget deficit has widened dramatically since April because of an unprecedented fiscal response to the pandemic, ...

OTTAWA—The parliamentary budget office says the federal deficit for the year is on track to hit $328.5 billion ...

OTTAWA—Canada recorded a $148.58 billion budget deficit for the first four months of the 2020-21 fiscal year, reflecting ...

House Democrats want to restore earmarks next year despite new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that the federal ...

The buzz is that Trudeau is planning massive spending increases to be announced in his Sept. 23 throne ...

Commentary As Canadians await an “ambitious green agenda” from their prime minister, scheduled for a Sept. 23 announcement, ...

The White House expects that, by early next year, there will be a drop in both the deficit and ...

The Treasury Department says the U.S. budget deficit in the first 10 months of this budget year has ...

OTTAWA—A new poll suggests Canadians are torn on whether the federal government should tighten the taps on COVID-19 ...

As pandemic lockdown measures continue in some form across the country, a group of leaders in a variety ...

OTTAWA—Parliament’s budget watchdog says that it’s likely the federal deficit for the year will hit $252.1 billion as ...

Officials with the conservative National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) and liberal U.S. Public Interest Research Group Foundation (USPIRGF) ...

Exploding federal spending prompted by the U.S. government’s response to the CCP virus pandemic will force the annual ...

Federal officials representing both major political parties in the United States added more than $8 trillion on the ...

At CPAC 2020, we sit down with Acting Director Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget ...

The United States' November 2019 trade deficit fell to its lowest point in more than three years, suggesting ...

OTTAWA—The Conservatives are calling on Finance Minister Bill Morneau to deliver an “urgent” fall economic update, including a ...

Compared with Ontario, Alberta has tougher sledding ahead to balance the books.

News Analysis The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (informally, the U.S.-China Commission or USCC) reported that Chinese exports ...

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at a congressional hearing on Mar. 14 ...