Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Valerie Nessel, left, stands with President Donald Trump before accepting the Medal of Honor for her husband Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman, posthumously for conspicuous gallantry during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

This government shutdown drama is boring and predictable. Can we just stop watching already?

Philip Wegmann · November 28, 2018 7:55 pm

"The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela," said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon Friday evening, according to CNN.

The Pentagon audit is done, and it’s a failure

Dustin Siggins · November 28, 2018 5:00 am

Defense cuts bring Trump and Democrats together

Travis J. Tritten · November 27, 2018 5:00 am

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan hosts an event in D.C.

Pentagon to present Trump with two defense budgets for next year

Jamie McIntyre · November 15, 2018 6:43 pm

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Sen. Jim Inhofe signals he will oppose Trump’s move to cut defense spending

Travis J. Tritten · November 14, 2018 7:23 pm

Chuck Schumer holds the line at $1.6 billion in border wall funding

Susan Ferrechio · November 14, 2018 4:48 pm

Feds outspend revenues by $100 billion in October

Pete Kasperowicz · November 13, 2018 8:25 pm

Park Billow, 27, sprays water on the hot spots in his backyard as the Woolsey Fire burns in Malibu, Calif.

Trump threatens to pull federal funding to California as wildfires ravage state

Robert King · November 10, 2018 2:57 pm

Paul Ryan.

Beltway Confidential

House Republicans forgot to act like Republicans, so they lost

Noah Wall · November 7, 2018 6:14 am

"The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela," said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon Friday evening, according to CNN.

National Security

The Pentagon weapons programs in crosshairs of Trump defense cuts

Travis J. Tritten · October 27, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

National Security

Trump ordered $33B cut to national defense budget next year, Pentagon’s No. 2 says

Travis J. Tritten · October 26, 2018 2:30 pm

President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, and heads to Marine One on the South Lawn for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base. Trump is traveling to Montana, Arizona and Nevada.

How to improve Trump’s regulatory budget

James Broughel · October 26, 2018 4:00 am