Tag: Spending

Rep. Jason Lewis, R-Minn., touts this Congress' 15 Congressional Review Act resolutions successfully overturning federal mandates. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Jason Lewis: Congress is getting government out of your way

Rep Jason Lewis · January 11, 2018 8:48 pm

On at least 130 occasions from 2014 to 2016, Vikrum Aiyer, the then-chief of staff for the office, called a taxi to chauffeur him from the vicinity of his home in Washington, D.C., to agency headquarters in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

High-ranking Obama official commuted by taxi to work and billed the government for it

Caitlin Yilek · January 11, 2018 3:08 pm

Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced on Thursday that the Trump administration would allow states to institute work requirements for Medicaid recipients. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s new guidelines: Get a job or volunteer if you want Medicaid

Kimberly Leonard · January 11, 2018 11:00 am

President Trump speaks met with a bipartisan group of legislators to discuss immigration policy reform on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In DACA talks, Trump angers both sides of immigration debate

W. James Antle III · January 11, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Senate Republican, and Rep. Fred Upton think the Children's Health Insurance Program will be included in next week's spending bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers confident CHIP will be in spending bill

Robert King · January 10, 2018 10:08 pm

Some problems have already been found. In an initial audit, the Army found 39 Black Hawk helicopters that weren't on the books, Defense Department Comptroller David Norquist said. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

National Security

Audit work and fixes could cost Pentagon nearly $1 billion this year

Travis J. Tritten · January 10, 2018 4:48 pm

New York's exorbitant spending is an example of how government financing, combined with inadequate controls over private contractors and unions, results in enormous waste. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: New York shows Trump how not to do infrastructure

Michael Barone · January 10, 2018 4:46 pm

Republicans, who failed again in the Senate to replace Obamacare last week, said Democrats won't admit that the law is failing while Democrats say Republicans want to take away healthcare from millions of people. But beyond Obamacare as a whole, the two parties do agree on many healthcare issues and have forged bipartisan consensus. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Next spending bill unlikely to include Obamacare measures

Robert King · January 9, 2018 10:07 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said lawmakers will try to negotiate legislation in the coming weeks to protect so-called Dreamers and install new border security and immigration enforcement provisions. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Mitch McConnell throws cold water on Democrats’ desire to see DACA fix in government spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2018 8:24 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., hinted that he and Democrats wouldn't agree to Republican demands in the latest spending showdown, which could lead to a partial government shutdown. But he said it's up to Republicans to find a deal Democrats can support. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bernie Sanders pre-emptively blames GOP for government shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · January 9, 2018 12:56 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that immigration reform and government spending talks between lawmakers are going well, in spite of President Trump butting in intermittently. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Chuck Schumer: Trump making ‘unreasonable demands’ for border wall

Al Weaver · January 8, 2018 9:31 pm

Across all 50 states, we have seen expenditures creep up over the last 10 years in every category. (iStock by Getty Images)

A financial ‘bomb cyclone’ is coming for the states in 2018

Sheila Weinberg · January 8, 2018 5:01 am