As of 2022, New Mexico had the highest balance of payments, receiving more federal funds than what its businesses and residents paid in taxes to the federal government. This is influenced by ...

Moody’s, which was the final major ratings agency that gave the U.S. a triple-A credit rating, scrutinized the federal government, saying successive presidential administrations and Congress ...

Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit rating down a notch to Aa1 from the Aaa, the highest possible, citing the growing burden of financing the federal government’s budget ...

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ debt on Friday, stripping the country of its last perfect credit rating. The move could rattle financial markets and push up interest rates ...

States that use provider taxes to get more money usually start by paying the hospitals more. If the federal government is paying 60 percent and the state 40 percent, when a state bumps a payment ...