Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Pelosi mocks GOP ‘meltdown’ over wall funding

Susan Ferrechio · December 20, 2018 4:57 pm

In this April 10, 2018, file photo, President Trump listens as he meets in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump threatens spending bill veto, hauls GOP in for meeting

Melissa Quinn · December 20, 2018 4:41 pm

FILE - In this March 28, 2017, file photo, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. A key part of House Republicans' plan to overhaul the way corporations pay taxes is on life support, leaving lawmakers scrambling to save one of President Donald Trump's biggest priorities and increasing the chances the GOP will simply pass a tax cut instead of overhauling the tax code.

‘This is a fumble’: Mark Meadows rips Trump, GOP for border wall failure

Pete Kasperowicz · December 20, 2018 1:41 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters about the possibility of a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Congress and President Donald Trump continue to bicker over his demand that lawmakers fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight Friday.

Senate quickly and quietly passes bill to avoid Saturday shutdown

Susan Ferrechio · December 20, 2018 3:14 am

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Viper Company, 1-26 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), with the East Africa Response Force (EARF), prepare for night vision training at Grand Bara, Djibouti, Dec. 14, 2018. The purpose of the EARF is to rapidly provide tailorable packages of forces to protect American interests on the African continent should any threats arise.

Beltway Confidential

The Pentagon failed an audit it never expected, or tried, to pass

Sean Kennedy · December 19, 2018 7:45 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky appear for a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Office of Strategic Services in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 21, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Mitch McConnell's plan to avert government shutdown will give Nancy Pelosi more power

Philip Klein · December 19, 2018 3:51 pm

A U.S. soldier, left, sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found.

Beltway Confidential

Pentagon waste shouldn’t stop Congress from fully equipping the military

Frederico Bartels · December 19, 2018 5:00 am

Mitch McConnell: White House ‘extremely flexible’ on government funding bill, there won’t be a shutdown

Susan Ferrechio · December 18, 2018 9:20 pm

President Trump calls on a reporters as he speaks to members of the media.

Beltway Confidential

Government shutdowns, North Korea, and why Trump should save his threats for rare occasions

Tom Rogan · December 18, 2018 7:51 pm

Members Congress clinb the steps of the House of Representatives for final votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break with no agreement in sight on legislation to cope with the influx of young immigrants flocking illegally to the United States. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Congress should stop unchecked, unmonitored ‘backdoor’ spending

Quin Hillyer · December 16, 2018 3:00 pm

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., arrives for the House Democrats leadership elections where he expect to become the House majority whip, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

Return of pork barrel politics? Democrats plot to revive earmarks

Susan Ferrechio · December 13, 2018 5:03 am

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Adam Smith lays out his defense budget strategy: ‘We can do it for less money’

Travis J. Tritten · December 12, 2018 5:56 pm