Scott Bessent had a wild explanation for why the budget bill won’t increase the national debt.

JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

Donald Trump is threatening Elon Musk as Musk tries to take down his budget bill.

Which presidents have added the most to the national debt? Those free-spending liberal Democrats? Think again, and think about the reason why.

Donald Trump just upended the loan repayment system.

Mike Johnson has just released House Republicans’ budget plan—and it’s not good.

Republicans, in the peak of cruelty, are turning the L.A. fires into a political bargaining chip.

Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.

Republicans’ new spending bill completely ignores Trump’s biggest demand.

Donald Trump has a new proposal Republicans in Congress are sure to hate.

Donald Trump has a new proposal that most of the Republican Party won’t like.

Kamala Harris’s campaign is still sending out fundraising requests.

Donald Trump does not want to be reminded about how his economic plans would massively balloon the federal debt.

The Supreme Court is refusing to save Joe Biden’s SAVE plan for now, leaving millions of borrowers in legal limbo.

He’s desperate for money, but we should be worried less about foreign autocrats than rich Americans.

Insurer Chubb has stepped in with a timely loan to help with some of the former president’s mounting legal fees. But he’s still nearly half a billion dollars short—and he says he hasn’t got it.

The Debt Collective has just wiped out $10 million in student debt and is calling on Joe Biden to do his part.

A bill being considered in Albany could fundamentally change the rules for private creditors—and stop them from milking poorer countries for money.

The Colorado representative didn’t make time to vote against the bill she spent so much time criticizing.

“The future of the world is literally at stake,” the Vermont senator wrote in announcing his opposition.