Tag: Budgets and Deficits

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, file photo, a statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury Department reports on the federal budget picture for April and for the fiscal year thus far on Monday, May 12, 2014.

Beltway Confidential

The future is not a piggy bank: the danger of sky high deficits

Erin Dunne · October 16, 2018 4:05 pm

Widening wealth gap undermines the nation’s credit rating

James Langford · October 16, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump with Vice President Mike Pence speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, about the $1.3 trillion spending bill.

Federal budget deficit clocks in at $779B for 2018, largest since 2012

Joseph Lawler, Colin Wilhelm · October 15, 2018 6:08 pm

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks at a news conference in Annapolis, Md., Apr. 9, 2018, the final day of the state's 2018 legislative session.

Republican governors need to preach fiscal conservatism

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

New proposal to avert America’s debt crisis shows how politically impossible the problem actually is to solve

Philip Klein · October 11, 2018 4:26 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

National Security

Mitch McConnell sets stage for border wall funding battle in lame duck session

Susan Ferrechio · October 10, 2018 1:36 pm

Beltway Confidential

Donald Trump embraces self-defeating Republican attack on ‘Medicare for all’

Philip Klein · October 10, 2018 10:42 am

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, file photo, members of Congress walk down the steps of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Treasury Department reports on the federal budget deficit for March Thursday April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Federal deficit rose to $782 billion in 2018, largest since 2012: Budget office

Joseph Lawler · October 5, 2018 10:00 pm

GOP want the official scorekeeper to give a second opinion on Obamacare

Robert King · October 4, 2018 4:02 pm

An Options For Youth charter school is seen in this strip mall in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Education officials are poised to probe the financing structure of the Pasadena-based charter school, that serves 20,000 students at 60 centers throughout the state.

Public school buildings belong to public school students — including charter students

Nina Rees · October 3, 2018 4:00 am

The National debt is shown behind Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as he testifies on the semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in Washington.

National debt jumps $1.2 trillion in fiscal year 2018

Pete Kasperowicz · October 1, 2018 8:22 pm

Actress America Ferrera, surrounded by House Democrats and immigration leaders, speaks on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday during a new conference. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Congress must reform its budget process, but not like this

Barry Poulson · October 1, 2018 12:00 am