Tag: Spending

The latest hurdle to its passage was the lack of any language to provide aid to Flint, Mich., which is still dealing with a lead water crisis. (iStock photo)

National Security

Senate passes stopgap spending bill with two days to spare

Susan Ferrechio · September 28, 2016 7:14 pm

—œThe House feels comfortable where they are on Flint, we feel comfortable in the Senate," Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)

Dems drop opposition to spending bill after Flint deal

Susan Ferrechio · September 28, 2016 3:30 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said that he is working with members of both parties on legislation to institute biennial budgeting for the government. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ryan working on bipartisan legislation for biennial budgeting

Joseph Lawler · September 28, 2016 2:24 pm

—œPeople of Flint are told no, and then all of a sudden, there is help for Louisiana,—£ Rep. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said in a floor speech urging lawmakers to block the bill. (AP Photo)

Senate blocks spending bill 3 days before government shutdown

Susan Ferrechio · September 27, 2016 6:30 pm

The fiscal year ends Friday, and without some agreement, the government would likely see a partial shutdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House to GOP: No extensions on spending bill

Nicole Duran · September 27, 2016 6:24 pm

Recent test results show homes still have high amounts of lead in their drinking water and only a few in the city have had their lead pipes removed. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Energy and Environment

Dems say they ‘can’t trust’ GOP to put Flint funding in water bill

Kyle Feldscher · September 27, 2016 5:49 pm

"Can it really be that Democratic leaders have embraced dysfunction so thoroughly that they'd tank a noncontroversial, 10-week funding bill over, well, what exactly?" Mitch McConnell asked. (AP Photo)

McConnell says Dems ‘playing politics’ with funding bill

Susan Ferrechio · September 27, 2016 3:07 pm

"I think the best place to deal with that is in WRDA," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP pressures Democrats ahead of planned spending bill filibuster

Susan Ferrechio · September 26, 2016 9:00 pm

The White House says it's not certain that President Obama would sign a budget bill unveiled by the Senate's top Republican. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama not ready to sign GOP’s spending bill

Nicole Duran · September 23, 2016 6:51 pm

For months, Democrats had refused to approve a GOP Zika funding bill as it included a pot of funding that may have been off-limits to Planned Parenthood clinics because of how the legislation was worded. (AP Photo)

Gov’t funding bill circumvents Planned Parenthood fight

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 22, 2016 8:45 pm

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., said he was disappointed, but not yet defeated, by the latest setback in his fight to get federal funding for the lead water crisis in the eastern Michigan city. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

Flint’s congressman wants to know why House GOP won’t help his city

Kyle Feldscher · September 22, 2016 7:47 pm

September accounts for just one-twelfth of the year but one-sixth of government agencies' contract spending, according to a new study. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Brace yourselves: The end-of-fiscal-year budget surge is coming

Jason Russell · September 22, 2016 6:53 pm