A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Musk reportedly sought to access the system responsible for paying Social Security benefits and federal contracts

One water manager described the situation — below-normal snowpack coupled with a statewide drought emergency — as "ominous."

According to new reporting from the Washington Post, the top career official at the United States Treasury Department will be resigning after a dispute with DOGE and Elon Musk's allies over access to a highly sensitive payment system that controls access to more than six trillion dollars in disbursements per year.

It’s time to start thinking about the constitutional ideals that can put the nation’s finances on sound footing.

Russell Vought has signaled he hopes to slash spending — and push the limits of presidential power to achieve Trump’s agenda.

As such, fiscal policy must be part of the solution ... When COVID-19 and the overreaction of lockdowns arrived, Washington dramatically increased spending through stimulus checks, enhanced ...

The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.

US stocks gained steam on Thursday afternoon as investors digested megacap tech earnings and waited for Apple (AAPL) results for more clues on prospects for Big Tech. Right ahead of the closing bell,

The first Trump administration's strategy caused a "brain drain" and a generational blow to American agricultural research. And Trump’s not finished.

Washington has joined 21 other states in a lawsuit seeking to block the federal government from freezing billions in federal funding of an array of state programs including ones centered on education,

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.