District leaders are putting together the budget for next school year, which officials thought would feature a $529 million ...

For the first time in years, Irvine leaders are looking at a $6 million shortfall and questions on whether their future budgets will be fully balanced.

While Irvine staff warn they could burn through all their reserves by 2030 without changes, council members couldn’t agree to take action.

Gaston County Commissioners are going back to the drawing board to find more funding in their budget for schools. Dozens of ...

The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2036, and once again, CBO and the media are blaming the nation’s deficit problem on Republican tax cuts.

The U.S. economy is increasingly propped up by federal deficit spending, which, by one estimate, effectively adds about $15,000 per household to the economy each year. Federal deficit spending became ...

Staffers say the $6 million deficit this year is a manageable 2% overage of the city’s day-to-day funding, but if no action ...

Between tax cuts, the war against Iran, and the Supreme Court ruling against Donald Trump’s tariffs, the federal budget is headed further into the red. How much does that matter? Depends on which ...