Tag: Budgets and Deficits

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. stands in a hallway and speaks on the phone as she arrives back at the Capitol building after meeting with President Trump about border security in the Situation Room of the White House in D.C.

Is Pelosi open to deal on Dreamers and wall funding?

Susan Ferrechio · January 10, 2019 5:49 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters during her weekly news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2018.

Pelosi: Trump will anger GOP if he skirts Congress on wall

Susan Ferrechio · January 10, 2019 5:30 pm

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the United States would be better off without a government shutdown this fall, as President Trump called for in a Tuesday morning tweet. (David Banks/Bloomberg)

Top Republican on House Armed Services Committee opposes military money for border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 8, 2019 9:28 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2014 file photo, a Southwest Airlines jet plane lines up for a landing at Love Field in Dallas. Southwest Airlines reports quarterly earnings on Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Government shutdown over Trump’s wall taking a toll on US air travel

Joe Williams · January 8, 2019 6:42 pm

A visitor reads information outside of the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center in Everglades National Park, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Homestead, Fla. As the partial government shutdown drags on, private organizations, local businesses, volunteers and state governments are putting up the money and manpower to keep national parks across the U.S. open, safe and clean for visitors.

Beltway Confidential

What, exactly, are we losing from the government shutdown? Not much

Tim Worstall · January 8, 2019 2:31 pm

Residents that moved vehicles to higher ground found the vehicles still flooded on Park Lane west of Folsom, La. Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.

Congress can’t stop the infrastructure flood it created

John Brown Miller · January 8, 2019 5:00 am

A gavel lays on top of a book.

Federal court system finds wiggle room to remain open longer than expected during shutdown

Kelly Cohen · January 7, 2019 9:31 pm

President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House as he walks from Marine One, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Washington. Trump is returning from a trip to Camp David.

Beltway Confidential

Emergency powers are no blank check for building a wall

Erin Dunne · January 7, 2019 4:35 pm

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a moderated conversation with WNPR's Lucy Nalpathanchil at the annual Mary and Louis Fusco Distinguished Lecture Series at Southern Connecticut State University, Friday, March 23, 2018, in New Haven, Conn.

Biden blames ‘the conservative blonde woman’ for shutdown

Kimberly Leonard · January 5, 2019 11:55 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, left, White House legislative affairs aide Ja'Ron Smith, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, second row left, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, and others, walk down the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office building, on the White House complex, after a meeting with staff members of House and Senate leadership, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, in Washington.

Negotiations over funding to continue as government shutdown enters third week

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 5, 2019 9:15 pm

President Trump with Vice President Mike Pence speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in D.C.

Trump freezes raises for Pence and Cabinet amid shutdown

Kimberly Leonard · January 5, 2019 4:11 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., administers the House oath of office to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., during ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, during the opening session of the 116th Congress.

Progressives aim to repeal ‘pay-as-you-go’ law to help clear way for Medicare for All

Colin Wilhelm · January 4, 2019 10:39 pm