Tag: Spending

Lawmakers Await Release of Spending Bill As Shutdown Looms

Haley Byrd · March 20, 2018 3:37 pm

Republican Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, speaks as he officially announces his candidacy for president of the United States in Detroit, Mich. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Ben Carson explains purchase of expensive dining room set: ‘I’m not really big into decorating’

Katelyn Caralle · March 20, 2018 2:44 pm

Transparency on federal employee bonuses isn’t a privilege, it’s a right

Adam Andrzejewski · March 20, 2018 4:01 am

Trump: ‘Democrats do not want to help DACA’

Mandy Mayfield · March 20, 2018 12:57 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, talks with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. as they arrive for a GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Congress stuck on spending bill as clock ticks toward government shutdown

Susan Ferrechio · March 19, 2018 11:58 pm

The U.S. Capitol building stands past American flags before sunrise in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017.

CBO: Obamacare funding bill would increase deficit by $19B

Kimberly Leonard · March 19, 2018 11:10 pm

FILE - In this July 9, 2017 file photo, Amtrak workers continue ongoing infrastructure renewal work beneath Penn Station in New York. Proponents of a $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey seen as critical for the future of the nation's busiest rail corridor are panning President Donald Trump's infrastructure proposal. The budget released by the White House on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, envisions $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending over the next 10 years; however, only $200 billion would be direct federal spending aimed at leveraging state and local dollars.

White House expects victory in effort to strip funds for NY-NJ tunnel project

Sarah Bedford · March 19, 2018 9:53 pm

Beltway Confidential

Chris McDaniel’s feud with Mississippi governor delaying conservative support for his Senate campaign

Al Weaver · March 18, 2018 4:01 am

National debt hits $21 trillion

Pete Kasperowicz · March 16, 2018 8:20 pm

An economics lesson for America

Nathanael Snow · March 16, 2018 12:01 am

National Security

Steven Mnuchin’s KY trip on a military aircraft coinciding with the solar eclipse cost $33K, watchdog finds

Melissa Quinn · March 15, 2018 8:26 pm

President Trump signs a tax-overhaul bill into law in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

The GOP’s spending blowout invalidates ‘Starve the Beast’ tax cuts

Brian Riedl · March 15, 2018 7:16 pm