The Cost of the A.I. Boom: A Trade Deficit the President Detests

A recent surge of A.I.-related imports has become an impediment to the smaller trade deficit President Trump wants.

‘No, we didn’t’: DOGE staffer admits Elon Musk’s cost-cutting agency failed to reduce the federal deficit

In its early days, the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) bragged it could cut up to $2 trillion from ...

U.S. Trade Deficit Shrinks 25%, Driven by Gold Exports

The deficit of $54.5 billion continue​s a volatile run as imports and exports ​react to rapid ​shifts in ​the trade policy.

D.C.’s decency deficit is costing Americans more than money | John Baer

Engaged in a war and facing high energy prices, and slumping polls, official Washington is disregarding decency, a minimal ...

U.S. debt is competing with a record supply of corporate bonds, pushing up the cost of federal borrowing just as war spending piles up

The AI capital expenditure boom has created a gusher of corporate debt, forcing the Treasury Department to make its bonds ...
The Columbian

U.S. trade deficit declined in 2025, but gap for goods hits a record despite Trump tariffs

WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit slipped modestly in 2025, a year in which President Donald Trump upended global commerce by slapping double digit tariffs on imports from most countries. But the ...
KTAR News

U.S. trade deficit slipped to $901 billion last year amid Trump tariffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit slipped modestly in 2025, a year in which President Donald Trump upended global commerce by slapping double digit tariffs on imports from most countries. The ...
AOL

‘Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government’: how the undocumented helped shrink the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades

With thousands of people pouring into the streets of Minneapolis to protest the White House’s immigration crackdown, debate over President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policy has reached new ...