White House budget director Russell Vought told House lawmakers on Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn’t yet have a “ballpark” estimate of how much supplemental funding it will seek for the ...

Good evening. President Trump today announced that he would extend the two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran that had been scheduled to end on Wednesday. In a social media post, Trump wrote that he ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

On Wednesday, President Obama endorsed the idea of “promise zones,” a variation of the old Republican idea of enterprise zones. These new zones—located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, ...

President Trump on Thursday released the outline of a new healthcare plan that largely repackages several familiar proposals aimed at lowering insurance premiums and prescription drug prices under a ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

President Trump wants to increase defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal year 2027, for a total of $1.5 trillion, according to his budget request released Friday. At the same ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

Gallup says the share of people who now call their taxes too high is well above the roughly 50% average seen in its surveys in the early 2000s, following President George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts. But ...

Despite stepped up efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud and wasteful spending, the federal government lost at least $43 billion in fiscal 2015 to health care providers who filed improper or bogus ...

At a time when there is growing concern about the cost of the war against Iran, and with the Trump administration poised to request a massive increase in the Defense Department’s annual budget to $1.5 ...