For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even ...

Opponents of the Republican COLA adjustment proposal have also proposed using the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) instead, which looks at spending among those 62 and older.

Inflation cooled slightly in February even as the pace of price growth remained well above the Federal Reserve's goal ahead of the central bank's policy meeting next week. The Labor Department on ...

The resolution made it out of the chamber on mirroring partisan lines, with all but one Republican voting for it and all but one Democratic representative voting against it. The lone GOP objection ...