Hours after threatening a veto, Trump signed the bill, saying it will increase defense spending.
Under Trump's request, NASA's budget would hold steady, while the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation would see their funding slashed.
The latest deal, once again, kicked longstanding budget issues down the road, and puts more pressure on future generations.
The tax on both domestic crude and imported petroleum products generated $500 million a year, on average, in federal revenue.
Here's what you need to know about the big bipartisan spending package Congress just passed.
The congressional spending deal includes a sale of roughly 100 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a cache of federally owned oil.
After a difficult year, the governor has allocated a large portion of his 2018–19 budget to addressing environmental concerns.
The theory behind Trump's budget is that we must take from state and local programs in order to fund federal defense projects.
A new report argues for lifetime career loans as part of a modern New Deal for American workers.
And, as it turns out, many economists don't love the administration's apparent investment priorities.
The Office of Research and Development has been at front lines of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.
It asks for more money for the departments of defense, homeland security, and justice.
Congress and the White House are once again engaged in their annual budgetary dance, but there's one part of the proposal that should make them speed things up.
The disability program was saved—but an opportunity to improve it was lost.
Meet Dave Ramsey, the most important personal finance guru in America. Millions of people follow his biblically inspired advice. It goes like this: 1. Purge yourself of debt; 2. Live on cash; 3. Pretend economic trends don't affect you; 4. Blame yourself when they do.
Get used to government shutdowns. Serious budget problems are a common feature of large states in decline.
The head coaches at Army, Navy, and Air Force make the most money in the Pentagon—and it's not all that surprising.
New research suggests that, contrary to common belief, ticket buyers are not particularly hostile toward contemporary compositions.
An experiment demonstrates the death by a thousand cuts that could result from across-the-board cuts that would follow a deadline fumble by the U.S. deficit "super committee."
Between budget cuts and suggestions that the Navy and Air Force have their pulse on the future, do the U.S. Army and Marines face bleak prospects?
Most of the U.S. Postal Service's plans for surviving in the short term come down to cutting costs and not implementing the new ideas its own consultants have called for.
Results of a survey from the American Association of School Administrators shows how K-12 school officials across the country made cuts to their schools' programs.
As the U.S. Congress prepares to weigh a new round of massive budget cuts mandated by this summer's deal on the deficit, some odd bedfellows offer a suite of suggestions for saving green by being green.
While the federal component of research funding remains federal, state budget cuts threaten U.S. research quality, educators say. ...