President Donald Trump has made reducing the trade deficit a central part of his "American First Trade Policy." Here's what ...

Is anyone else’s head spinning? It’s been less then three weeks since President Trump’s inauguration and to say he’s been busy with executive orders and shaking things up would be the understatement ...

Over the past 60 years, nearly every U.S. president has run a record budget deficit at some point ... Roosevelt entered office when the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression ...

The 2024 deficit was a record $1.2 trillion, marking the fourth consecutive trade deficit above $1 trillion and the sixth ...

Once again, the U.S. ran the largest deficit with China, with the gap in goods totaling $295 billion in 2024. (Full-year statistics for services are not unavailable yet.) ...

Data released Wednesday morning by the Commerce Department showed that U.S. imports of goods and services grew 6.6 percent to ...

To President Trump, one economic number represents everything that is wrong with the global economy: America’s trade deficit.

The US trade gap swelled last year to nearly $920 billion, according to government data released Wednesday, as deficits come ...

The US trade gap swelled last year to its second-largest on record, government data showed Wednesday, as deficits come under ...