The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump.

The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion. That will be piled on to a national debt that currently exceeds $36 trillion.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper reported Friday, with debt and deficits set to reach record levels.

President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda Monday due to forecasts of intense cold weather.

Extending the tax law that’s set to expire would add $4.6 trillion to the national debt — so some GOP lawmakers want to change the rules.

As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of the state’s limited water supply to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires. And if we don’t give him the money to put out his fires, he’s got problems.”

Republicans' renewed probe into federal telework sets the stage for how President-elect Donald Trump may approach a possible return-to-office mandate for feds.

He stressed he would follow the law, even as he emphasized Trump’s desire to overturn the 1974 Impoundment Control Act that requires congressional approval to rescind spending.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to bring down mortgage rates and make housing affordable again. His policies could do the opposite.

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’

Vance has never been a darling of the traditional free-market conservatives that dominate the Republican party. Can he shape Trump’s policy?