This may be the single most important issue facing U.S. democracy today When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 and began running up massive deficits, the national debt was just 31% of gross domestic ...

Chalkbeat wants to better understand what the Education Department’s budget looks like to the people on the ground and where you see the biggest potential savings.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday unveiled a new Commission on Government Efficiency, or COGE, a City Hall watchdog charged with combing through how New York spends public money and suggesting changes ...

Mamdani appears to be borrowing from a high-profile political playbook, announcing a new Commission on Government Efficiency.

Though Mamdani was elected as a socialist outsider, he has since expressed concern over the viability of some of his ...

The Trump White House’s budget office is tightening a rule for the distribution of up to $1 trillion in federal grant-making ...

One of Republicans’ classic attacks on government goes like this: Scroll through the list of government grants to find the ...

Miami-Dade County always seems to find money for government spending, but somehow never enough respect for the taxpayers funding it. Across Miami-Dade, families are adjusting to rising costs in almost ...

It’s the time when Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) releases its annual “Congressional Pig Book Summary,” exposing ...

The wasteful habits of millennials and Gen Z members should come as no surprise — it has been well documented that many of these consumers are prone to impulse online spending and have grown addicted ...

In an appearance in Orange County Wednesday, Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia criticized the county government ...

The Trump administration proposed a rule Wednesday that would restrict some financial mechanisms used to increase payment to providers in the safety-net insurance program Medicaid. The rule codifies ...