Tag: Treasury Department

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Financial Services and Government Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Mnuchin rebuffs Democratic invitation to testify on shutdown impact

Colin Wilhelm · January 17, 2019 7:54 pm

In this Jan. 14, 2019, photo, bottles, freshly filled with beer, move on a belt at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee. The federal shutdown is impacting the federal agency Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which approves licenses for new breweries, some ingredients and labels for beers sent out of state. The brewery is now waiting for the federal agency to approve the "My Turn: Chuck" beer label, so they can sell it out of state.

Washington builds plenty of walls. And then charges you to pass through the gate

Timothy P. Carney · January 16, 2019 1:14 pm

A worker cleans the floors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, which has been impacted by the partial federal government shutdown at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

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With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability

Reps. Thomas Massie and Chip Roy · January 16, 2019 5:00 am

Last week, an appellate judge issued a scathing ruling in the IRS targeting scandal -- the one that broke into the news cycle all the way back in 2013. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

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IRS payments for abusing conservatives should keep Fed workers honest

Quin Hillyer · January 16, 2019 4:18 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks with an aide on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

Senate ignores Trump, votes to consider bill reversing decision to lift Russia sanctions

Susan Ferrechio · January 15, 2019 10:28 pm

Union members and Internal Revenue Service workers rally outside an IRS Service Center.

Most of IRS to return to work, despite shutdown, to issue tax refunds

Colin Wilhelm · January 15, 2019 9:24 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks to reporters after giving a classified briefing to members of the House of Representatives, telling them that the Trump administration will keep strict U.S. sanctions on the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.

Mnuchin privately urges GOP lawmakers not to vote with Democrats on Russia sanctions measure

Susan Ferrechio · January 15, 2019 7:35 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to members of the media at the U.S. Capitol after arriving from a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Schumer to force vote on Treasury decision to lift Russian sanctions

Claude Thompson · January 13, 2019 5:03 pm

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., walks to a podium to speak during a demonstration against the partial government shutdown on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

8 Republicans vote to reopen the Treasury Department in test of House GOP unity

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2019 10:11 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Financial Services and Government Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 22, 2018.

Mnuchin to brief Democrats on Russia sanctions relief

Joel Gehrke · January 9, 2019 8:26 pm

This July 24, 2018, file photo shows a portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form for 2018 in New York.

Trump pushes the envelope in promising tax refunds

Colin Wilhelm · January 9, 2019 5:00 am

"This is not only typical of him, this is what this con man does. He diverts attention from himself by attacking others, but this business about Stormy is not going to go away," Rep. Maxine Waters said. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision for Human Rights Campaign/AP Images)

House Democrats push back on Trump about Russia sanctions relief

Joel Gehrke · January 8, 2019 10:47 pm