Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 15, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Happy budget season! Your gift is more debt

Daniel DePetris · March 11, 2019 6:43 pm

Donald Trump and Barack Obama.

Trump budget calls for adding almost as much to the debt as Obama did

Colin Wilhelm · March 11, 2019 6:36 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders talks to reporters outside the White House, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in Washington.

WATCH: White House press briefing with Sarah Sanders — March 11, 2019

Washington Examiner Staff · March 11, 2019 6:16 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019.

Sarah Sanders ends longest gap between press briefings in recent history

Steven Nelson · March 11, 2019 6:04 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters outside the White House before traveling to Alabama to visit areas affected by the deadly tornadoes, Friday, March 8, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Banging his head against the wall: Trump still won’t get his billions

Erin Dunne · March 11, 2019 5:33 pm

Copies of U.S. President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2020 budget request are displayed in the House Budget Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 11, 2019.

Trump unveils budget with ambitious goals for spending cuts, economic growth

Colin Wilhelm · March 11, 2019 3:32 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Two LGBT-rights organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, challenging President Donald Trump's tweets declaring he wants a ban on transgender people serving in the military.

Washington Secrets

Trump to cut $4 billion in domestic programs, elimination of Legal Services Corporation

Paul Bedard · March 11, 2019 10:13 am

A Houston firefighter walks through town.

Houston will fire 10 percent of firefighters to give others raises

Katelyn Caralle · March 9, 2019 6:19 pm

President Trump speaks.

Trump’s budget will include $750B for defense, money for border wall

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · March 9, 2019 4:30 pm

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Washington.

Good news, the trade deficit grew

Washington Examiner · March 7, 2019 5:00 am

A woman stands near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Finance and Economy

Federal deficit balloons 77 percent in first third of the fiscal year

Colin Wilhelm · March 5, 2019 8:13 pm

Customs and Border Protection plans to build an 18-foot levee wall through three miles on the wildlife refuge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Company offers to build 234 miles of border wall for $1.4 billion

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2019 5:41 pm