The federal budget was in surplus (“primary surplus”) toward the end of the Clinton administration, as Mrs. Clinton points out. Why? Partly because of tax increases that Republicans fought ...

Bill Clinton did it, too — the U.S. federal budget had a surplus between 1998 and 2001, the only time there's been a surplus since 1970. (The government's debt is $36.22 trillion at the time of ...

Virtually all politicians claim to support fiscal responsibility. But the decisions they make in practice make a mockery of ...

By cutting the workforce by over 377,000, restraining spending, and raising taxes on high income earners, Clinton transformed deficits in the U.S. budget to a surplus by 1998, which was sustained ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is auditing agencies and cutting budgets right and left. Working better and costing less is the order of the day, and it's making Democrats apoplectic.

Past efforts have achieved marginal improvements unless you count the reduction in federal workforce of 337,000 under President Bill Clinton and a budget surplus. That was achieved through ...