Tag: Spending

as Republicans are looking to pass their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, they will only need 216 votes to pass legislation. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Trump’s supplemental budget request faces uphill fight in Congress

Jacqueline Klimas · March 16, 2017 12:49 pm

Copies of President Trump's first budget are displayed at the Government Printing Office in Washington on March 16. Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Winners and losers under Trump’s budget plan

Joseph Lawler · March 16, 2017 11:51 am

National Security

Tillerson: State Department cuts work if U.S. gets in ‘fewer military conflicts’

Joel Gehrke · March 16, 2017 9:57 am

McMaster Interviewed CIA Operative to Replace Trump NSC Official

Michael Warren · March 16, 2017 9:00 am

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said that President Trump's massive cuts to the EPA will keep the country's environmental cop from "brainwashing" the country's children. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Jim Inhofe: Trump’s budget will stop EPA from ‘brainwashing our kids’

Kyle Feldscher · March 16, 2017 8:34 am

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013, file photo, a woman looks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. After last fall's tumultuous, bitterly partisan debt ceiling and government shutdown battles, a sense of fiscal fatigue seems to be setting in among many Washington policymakers as President Barack Obama prepares for his fifth State of the Union address later this month. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The return of the debt ceiling

Pete Kasperowicz · March 15, 2017 4:01 am

will issue a new memorandum on Monday that requires every executive agency to conduct an internal review of wasteful spending. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to order government-wide review of wasteful spending

Gabby Morrongiello · March 13, 2017 4:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

What ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ can teach us about American politics

Stephen Slivinski · March 13, 2017 3:16 pm

While HUD allows housing authorities to use vouchers for homeownership, less than half of 1 percent are used for this purpose.

HUD should turn to homeownership vouchers

Washington Examiner Staff · March 13, 2017 5:01 am

To boost military spending without adding to the deficit, Cohn said, "you have to make cuts. It's no different from every other family in America." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

National Security

Cohn on budget cuts: No alternative but to invest in the military

Joseph Lawler · March 12, 2017 1:47 pm

With Washington's addiction to spending, the national debt will be even higher by the time you finish this article. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

CPB needs a breath of fresh air from federal funding

Rep. Doug Lamborn · March 10, 2017 11:00 am

"I'm in favor of border security," McConnell said. "There are some places along the border where that's probably not the best way to secure the border. But I think General [John] Kelly knows what he's doing. I think the president picked an outstanding person to be in charge of homeland security and my suspicion is that we will take his advice." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

McConnell on whether Mexico will pay for border wall: ‘Uh, no’

Al Weaver · March 9, 2017 3:27 pm