Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, listen to statements on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Trump’s plan to build the wall himself turns Congress on its head

Susan Ferrechio · January 13, 2019 5:00 am

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, was endorsed by a host of environmental groups across the political spectrum, including the left-leaning League of Conservation Voters.

GOP congressman calls for McConnell to take up a Democrat-proposed bill to reopen government

Katelyn Caralle · January 12, 2019 10:18 pm

Gingrich said the GOP's failure to sell its repeal and replace legislation to the public sunk its chances. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Newt Gingrich says 1995-96 shutdown ‘was painful, but outcome was consequential’

Katelyn Caralle · January 12, 2019 8:08 pm

Signs announce the visitor center at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri Valley, Iowa, is closed as the partial government shutdown continues.

Federal government tells 30 furloughed government workers not to spend mistake paycheck

Katelyn Caralle · January 12, 2019 6:08 pm

President Trump speaks to the media before signing anti-human trafficking legislation, Wednesday Jan. 9, 2019, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Behind him are Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, left, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, and Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division.

Trump to Democrats: I’m waiting at the White House to make wall deal and end shutdown

Katelyn Caralle · January 12, 2019 3:42 pm

President Trump speaks as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border in McAllen, Texas.

Energy and Environment

Trump eases off using disaster relief funds for his wall after bipartisan pushback

Josh Siegel · January 12, 2019 2:05 am

Union members and other federal employees rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown, Thursday, January, 10, 2019, outside the White House.

Federal workers rally to #StopShutdown

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 11, 2019 12:18 am

In this photo,taken Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, vibrant fall colors are shown at Mount Charleston Nevada, which is within the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area of the Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest.

Do the Western national forests need to be liabilities?

Thomas J. Straka · January 11, 2019 12:00 am

President Trump speaks at a roundtable on immigration and border security at U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station during a visit to the southern border on Thursday in McAllen, Texas.

Trump briefed on plan to divert Puerto Rico, California disaster relief funds for border barrier

Anna Giaritelli · January 10, 2019 11:16 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to members of the media.

Graham gives up on shutdown talks: ‘I have never been more depressed’

Al Weaver · January 10, 2019 8:20 pm

People rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown on Thursday.

US economic harm from shutdown is small now — but growing constantly

James Langford · January 10, 2019 7:48 pm

Stewart Williams works with a crew removing border-related construction to replace it with a new border wall on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico.

Beltway Confidential

The wall must not supersede the Constitution’s checks and balances

Erin Dunne · January 10, 2019 7:02 pm