Tag: Spending

"The principles are simple: balance, which can take place over multiple years to accommodate economic conditions; emergency spending with supermajority support; and a full decade after ratification to get to balance," Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., wrote in a letter to fellow lawmakers. (AP file photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmaker renews call for balanced budget legislation

Rudy Takala · February 2, 2016 2:46 pm

"The initiative aims to bring about a decade's worth of advances in five years, making more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage," a White House news release stated. (AP photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama plans $1 billion for cancer ‘moonshot’

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2016 6:28 pm

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., have said that they will stick to the agreed-upon spending increase. (AP Photo)

With election in November, clock is ticking on welfare reform

Susan Ferrechio · February 1, 2016 5:01 am

We're all living in the same extraordinary age of excess, a time when low-income families think little about buying big-screen TVs, and high-income families think little of dishing out half a million dollars to buy a home. (Bloomberg Photos)

The age of excess leads to empty bank accounts

Washington Examiner Staff · January 25, 2016 5:01 am

In contrast to the U.K.'s Donald Trump debate, the U.S. House debated the $1.1 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2016 for just one hour before passing it in mid-December. (AP Photo)

Brits debate Trump ban 3 times longer than U.S. debate on $1.1T spending

Pete Kasperowicz · January 18, 2016 4:19 pm

Congress spending $310 billion on non-authorized programs

Joseph Lawler · January 15, 2016 9:28 pm

No, You Decide

Cameron Smith · January 15, 2016 6:25 am

"The fact is, the reason no one wants to answer entitlements up here is because it's hard," Christie said. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Republicans decry gov’t spending but ignore programs driving it

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 15, 2016 5:01 am

"I'll keep pushing for progress on the work that still needs doing. [Like] raising the minimum wage." (Bloomberg/Victor J. Blue)

Beltway Confidential

Seven proposals from Obama’s State of the Union that would cost taxpayers money

Jason Russell · January 13, 2016 3:53 am

President Obama will nominate University of Michigan economist Kathryn Dominguez to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. (AP Photo) Â

Fed paid $97.7 billion to Treasury in 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 6:25 pm

McCain said he had hoped to see more offensive capabilities outlined. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

McCain lists 51 ways government wastes taxpayer money

Anna Giaritelli · January 8, 2016 12:11 am

"I want to express the committee's expectation that the Department of Justice will allocate its resources to the enforcement of existing federal law," wrote Republican Rep. John Culberson. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

House appropriations panel to Obama: Don’t even think about funding gun control

Anna Giaritelli · January 5, 2016 12:17 am