Tag: Spending

"We are working through it, we'll get there," House Budget Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., said after meeting with GOP lawmakers this month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress faces prolonged spending fight

Susan Ferrechio · March 14, 2016 5:01 am

Steve Nardizzi, CEO of the Wounded Warriors Project, was fired in response to an audit that found the group didn't spend most of its money helping veterans. (AP File Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Wounded Warriors fires top executives after internal audit

Anna Giaritelli · March 10, 2016 11:39 pm

Rep. Kevin Brady said the package would "fight fraud and cut wasteful spending," and that he looks forward "to moving these common-sense bills through our committee and the House in the weeks ahead." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

House GOP targets tax-credit abuse

Joseph Lawler · March 10, 2016 9:59 pm

"We're subsidizing windmills for the 23rd year," Sen. Lamar Alexander said. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Energy and Environment

Alexander: Wind subsidies back on the chopping block

John Siciliano · March 9, 2016 11:01 pm

Democrats want new money for the health institutes to be mandatory instead of discretionary. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dems threaten to block health bills over NIH funding

Robert King · March 9, 2016 5:32 pm

The Obama administration sent $500 million to the Green Climate Fund to help poor countries cope with climate change. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Energy and Environment

Obama cuts first check under climate deal

John Siciliano · March 8, 2016 8:17 pm

"The funding needs to come and is time sensitive," Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

Feds: We need Zika money now

Robert King · March 3, 2016 4:11 pm

"In Nebraska, we do not spend money we do not have," Rep. Brad Ashford said. "Washington should work the same way." (AP Photo/Nati Harnik/File)

Dems demand balanced budget amendment to Constitution

Pete Kasperowicz · March 3, 2016 3:00 pm

"This year's budget should reduce discretionary spending and restore sanity to our nation's fiscal policy," the RSC wrote in its guidelines. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/File)

Largest conservative faction in the House demands budget cuts

Susan Ferrechio · March 1, 2016 9:16 pm

Neither the House nor the Senate must pass a budget. Instead, lawmakers can designate a spending level and simple craft appropriations measures that adhere to the limit. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Entitlement cuts could be key to budget agreement

Susan Ferrechio · February 29, 2016 5:01 am

McCarthy: How the House can govern and win in November

Joel Gehrke · February 28, 2016 2:00 pm

"They spend lots of money on things that were never authorized, were never supported," Kelly Ayotte said. "The two are totally disconnected. It's unbelievable." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A quarter of discretionary spending isn’t authorized

Jason Russell · February 26, 2016 6:10 pm