President-elect Trump tapped Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee education commissioner, for deputy secretary of the U.S.

Revenue returns remain on track halfway through Illinois' budget year, though it's next year that is causing concern in the Capitol. The Governor's Office of Management and Budget projects a $3.2 ...

A New York Times reporter stepped into controversy this week when critics say he fundamentally misunderstood a constitutional ...

Federal workers say President-elect Trump is causing panic with threats to cut government costs through layoffs and return-to-office mandates.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to reshape the federal government by dismantling what he terms the deep state. Sources ...

Federal debt BX:TMUBMUSD10Y held by the public as a share of the total economy will surpass the previous record of 106.1%, set in the waning days of World War II, by 2029, Trump's last year in office.

The Linn County Treasurer’s Office, where local residents can come to pay property taxes. (Gazette Archive) Property taxes ...

The jobless rate soared to 14.8% at the height of the pandemic, but, by the time Biden took office, it had dropped to 6.4%. It then fell steadily to 3.4% by 2023 as the U.S. recovered fully from the ...

Former Trump EPA officials and ex-staffers to Lee Zeldin are now listed in the agency’s staff directory as political ...

Eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump's second term appears unlikely. But observers expect the agency ...

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to seize greater control of the federal government than any modern president before ...

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