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 ...

Federal funding plays a critical role in shaping the educational landscape across the United States. A map reveals which states rely most on this support, underscoring the potential impact of the ...

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 ...

In just a few months, Donald Trump’s second presidential term has drastically reshaped the United States federal government and moved to consolidate the power of the executive branch. At the ...

This could see powers taken away from the federal government and set at the state level. Across the United States, 23 percent of Americans support their state leaving the union, with 51 percent ...

DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs. Officials working with the U.S. DOGE Service are pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and ...

If you have tips about the remaking of the federal government, you can contact Charlie on Signal at @cwarzel.92. Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he—a foreign-born ...

Trump responds as U.S. economy sees worst performance in 3 years 01:56. A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general filed two federal lawsuits on Tuesday, claiming that the Trump ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...