Spending

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also warned that proposed NATO expansion poses a threat to peace in Europe.

Trump's interim chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said in April that his administration was "spending a bunch of money on stuff we're not supposed to."

If President Donald Trump's spending and tax policies continue, a new CBO report found, the U.S. national debt will rise from 78 percent to 105 percent of the economy over the next decade.

The U.S. and China spent about $899 billion between them in 2018.

President Trump has long said that the U.S. is carrying too much of the burden when it comes to paying for the defense of NATO members.

The full list of federal and state officials to have received campaign contributions from Boeing runs 14 pages long.

The Defense Department spent $4.6 million on crab and lobster in September.

On February 15, President Trump signed a spending bill with a 1.9 percent pay increase for General Schedule employees.

On Friday, President Trump signed a spending bill that gives Federal GS employees an average 1.9 percent pay raise, but when will the changes take effect? Find out everything you need to know about the 2019 GS pay scale, new localities, back pay and more.

Both proposals will need 60 votes to advance, and it is unlikely either one will muster enough support.

"It only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation," the representative from New York told "60 Minutes."

House Democrats approved a spending package Thursday night to reopen the partially closed government that did not include money for President Donald Trump's border wall.

"They are so proud to be representing our country on the border," Trump added before departing the White House on Tuesday for Mar-a-Lago.

Nathan A. Sales, the State Department's ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism, called Iran "an extraordinary compendium of evil."

Interest on debt is rapidly becoming a larger share of the U.S. GDP, setting up a bipartisan battle over competing spending on health care, education and defense.

The president did not clarify which U.S. allies he considers to be ruled by dictators a month after Defense Secretary Mattis hailed NATO as union of "democratic nations."

Many Americans seem to be buying President Trump's anti-NATO—and often misleading—rhetoric.

Trump has said the U.S. should spend less but he spent more on Europe's defense, all for a Russian threat he disputes is there.

Trump boasted that the NATO leadership is very fond of him, but says Russia must be thinking "if we did like this guy, we made a big mistake."

President Donald Trump has often expressed views favorable to the Kremlin, but when it comes to NATO spending, Moscow disagrees.

The letters said America's contribution to the NATO alliance is "no longer sustainable."

A Chinese military report said "the U.S. armed forces have failed to live up to Trump's expectations" due to "scandals like ship collisions, drug abuses and rapes."

A local hunter said the cost was "ridiculous" and that he would have done it for free.

Goldman Sachs is warning its clients that the long-term fiscal outlook for the United States is "not good" because of high levels of deficit spending.

President Donald Trump has long promised to walk back some of Congress's $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill.

"This president, obviously, is not a president that's interested in fiscal issues."

The embattled Environmental Protection Agency administrator took to Washington a little too eagerly. Now he might be heading back to his hometown of Tulsa.

The Republicans didn't get money for the president's border wall; Democrats didn't get a solution on DACA. What now?

Some conservatives said the $1.3 trillion bill was a win for Democrats.

The president claims he was "forced" to accept certain aspects of the $1.3 trillion spending measure.