The Congressional Budget Office estimates the full-year shortfall rose 12 percent and the new fiscal year opened with a monthly gap $125 billion wider than a year earlier.
On the Sunday shows the attorney general backed the president’s call for a Justice Department inquiry, while waving off corruption claims from inside Trump’s own coalition.
The White House says the first lady secured a limited ceasefire in the Kherson region and will now bring the two warring sides to Washington.
A Section 232 proclamation signed on Wednesday sends Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and trade representative Jamieson Greer to negotiate with trading partners instead of imposing duties for now.
The administration points to energy agreements, regulatory rollbacks and $150 million of Defense Production Act funding, while experts doubt prices will move in time.
A new proclamation under a 1930 trade law removes paper, plastics, farm machinery and packaging from the duties as Collins fights a tight re-election race in Maine.
The proclamation directs Commerce and the US trade representative to negotiate with trading partners, leaving turbine makers such as Vestas facing prolonged uncertainty over US orders.
The export credit agency’s chairman and the energy secretary visited the Nebraska critical minerals project together.
The justices agreed to hear the administration’s fight with a watchdog group over whether the body that cut federal jobs and funding is subject to open-records law.
The Council of Economic Advisers says the sector is growing under the administration’s policies, while the president blames a court ruling for lost tariff revenue he has not quantified.
The triennial Survey of Consumer Finances found middle and lower earners gained real income while high earners lost ground.
The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital offered Wolfspeed a conditional loan that comes with an equity stake of up to 7.5 percent, and announced a $350 million quantum computing package the same day.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government borrowed $2.0 trillion in the year to September 30, and has published scenarios showing what higher interest rates would do to the debt.
An executive order lets off-road fuel run on highways through the end of the year, and governors are following.
An executive order temporarily opens highway use of tax-free dyed diesel and defers the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of the year.
The central bank’s inspector general found no grounds for a criminal referral over the headquarters renovation, and the president repeated his demand that the former chair quit the board anyway.
The White House calls the project one of the largest steel plants in American history, with production targeted for 2030.
A new executive order and proclamation carry forward the restrictions first imposed on the skilled-worker visa in 2025.
Congress has granted the president broad new tariff authority over the countries that buy Russian oil, days before Xi Jinping arrives in Washington.
The Fed board split six to one on new guidance covering banks’ core service providers, with Michael Barr dissenting.
The D.C. Circuit found the Energy Department failed to justify forcing the J.H. Campbell plant to keep running past its retirement date.
Five proclamations move the North American trade war from tariffs to outright import bans, taking effect at the end of September.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the deficit totalled $2.0 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal 2026, $6 billion less than the same stretch a year earlier.
The escalation moves the fight with Canada past tariffs into outright exclusion, with the prohibitions due to take effect in three weeks.
Washington moved from tariffs to outright import prohibitions hours after Canada’s retaliatory duties took effect.