Government Spending

An LA City Council leader is under fire for using the police department as her personal security detail all while calling for the LAPD to be defunded.

Federal spending climbed 53 percent last month to $598 billion in May.

Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would "dismantle" the department.

Emboldened organizers said they don't plan to stop rallying until they see concrete changes in police policy.

Some say "defund the police" means diverting police department funding to alleviate poverty and therefore reduce crime, while others say it means abolishing police departments entirely.

NASA's inspector general is investigating an allegation that a high-ranking NASA official earlier this year improperly guided Boeing Co. regarding an agency competition for lucrative lunar-lander contracts.

Detroit's police chief says it's crazy to defund police departments because of the death of George Floyd.

The call for police budget cuts comes at a time when most states were already faced with the need to reevaluate spending amid deficits and economic uncertainty that are a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The national debt is about $25 trillion

FOX Business' Stuart Varney during his latest "My Take” argues riots and the coronavirus outbreak has led to more struggling in blue states.

New York City has shelled out roughly $15.5 million in taxpayer money to Texas travel management company Crewfacilities.com LLC in order to book more than 8,600 hotel rooms at an affordable rate for hundreds of vulnerable homeless shelter residents, frontline hospital workers and recently released Rikers Island inmates to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, according to a report by THE CITY.

Retirement benefit tends to vary pretty significantly from state to state.

Do you want the largest Social Security check possible? Here's what you can do.

Ivanka has worked closely with the Treasury and SBA to help allocate $10 billion in PPP funding for minority-owned small businesses.

Businesses would also have 24 weeks to spend the money instead of two months. 

Long-term care can be an exorbitant expense -- one that many people don't plan for properly. Here's what the costs involved look like today.

Taking an early retirement plan withdrawal is a bad idea for three big reasons.

Many retirees head into their senior years expecting Social Security to help them make ends meet, but there are a few ways COVID-19 could reduce your future monthly checks.

SpaceX delayed its historic astronaut launch that was set for Wednesday afternoon due to unfavorable weather conditions and will try again on Saturday.

Small business owners need to track the money they’ve spent and assemble documentation backing their claims.