Tag: Spending

Class-action suit says city, state officials failed residents by not detecting lead-contamination problems. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Energy and Environment

Congress leaves town without help for Flint’s water crisis

Kyle Feldscher · July 14, 2016 11:05 pm

"If Senate Democrats continue to block consideration of Zika legislation, we urge you to aggressively use funds already available to mount a strong defense against the virus," Republicans wrote in a letter to President Obama. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

GOP to Obama: Start spending the Zika money you have

Susan Ferrechio · July 14, 2016 7:49 pm

Energy and Environment

House passes EPA-Interior spending bill

Kyle Feldscher · July 14, 2016 2:23 pm

131 amendments were set to be considered Tuesday night. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

House takes up $32.1 billion spending bill for Interior, EPA

Kyle Feldscher · July 12, 2016 10:57 pm

Here are four graphs that show just how doomed the federal budget is if Congress and the president don't do anything about it. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Why the federal budget is doomed, in 4 graphs

Jason Russell · July 12, 2016 8:09 pm

Freedom Partners, a group that advocates free-market policies and has been linked to the billionaire brothers who run Koch Industries, estimated that the gross federal debt will be nearly a quarter higher in 2040 than the Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Koch-linked group argues debt is rising faster than feds estimate

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2016 7:45 pm

The record high for federal debt held by the public was set at 106 percent of output in 1945, after the run-up in defense spending for the military effort in World War II. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg, File)

Federal debt headed toward all-time record, budget office says

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2016 2:01 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said he expects the Senate to finish its work on the 21st Century Cures package in September when Congress returns from a seven-week recess. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Senate pushes Cures bill to September

Robert King · July 11, 2016 10:29 pm

It's not clear exactly why Zika-laden mosquitoes haven't started carrying the virus from one person to another, other than the right combination of factors haven't come together. (AP Photo)

When Zika is expected to hit the U.S.

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 11, 2016 4:01 am

Revenue climbed 1 percent in the first three-quarters of the fiscal year, but spending rose 4 percent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Budget office: Deficit up $81 billion in nine months

Joseph Lawler · July 8, 2016 8:50 pm

Democrats lambasted Republicans Thursday for refusing to allocate Zika funding the way they want. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems lambast GOP over Zika funding

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 7, 2016 5:41 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Democrats should get on board with legislation aimed at curbing opioid abuse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell: Pass opioids bill

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 7, 2016 3:21 pm