A balanced federal budget in the United States is consistent with a massively bloated government operating well beyond its constitutional limits. This is what the budgetary experts at libertarian and ...

Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, this version particularly so because it stacks the deck in favor of spending cuts over ...

The U.S government’s debt hit $37.6 trillion on Sept. 30, the end of the most recent fiscal year. To put that number in perspective, a stack of $1 bills in that amount would be 2.5 million miles tall.

Kansas lawmakers and the governor are struggling to balance the state budget, facing a second year of deficit spending.