Tag: Budgets and Deficits

After a slow start, Trump's Pentagon says key positions, including dozens of jobs that don't require congressional confirmation, are being filled. (Wikipedia Commons)

$675 billion Pentagon spending bill approved by the Senate

Travis J. Tritten · August 23, 2018 9:25 pm

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, left, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., sit during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

GOP senator: White House won’t send new rescission package

Susan Ferrechio · August 22, 2018 9:47 pm

Senate hopes to end years of spending gridlock

Susan Ferrechio · August 18, 2018 4:00 am

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., alongside Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced new legislation which would require ads on social media platforms to explain who bought them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Mark Warner threatens amendment to block Trump from stripping security clearances

Caitlin Yilek · August 17, 2018 11:05 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)

National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months

Pete Kasperowicz · August 17, 2018 8:21 pm

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump watch the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees, in Paris, with French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

National Security

Trump’s military parade would cost $92 million: Report

Melissa Quinn · August 16, 2018 4:09 pm

White House frowns on funding for medical research, teen pregnancy prevention in Senate ‘minibus’

Kimberly Leonard · August 15, 2018 9:48 pm

Sen. Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, speaks during a ceremony to award World War II veteran Clarence Smoyer, 96, the Bronze Star at the World War II Memorial, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington.

Pat Toomey, the supply-siders’ field marshal in the Senate

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2018 12:00 am

Alexander Hamilton’s worst enemy was not who Broadway thinks it was

Gregory May · August 12, 2018 4:00 am

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders misunderstood study he used to tout ‘Medicare for All,’ author says

Robert King · August 12, 2018 4:00 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by House Republicans, speaks to the media following a vote on tax reform, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Monthly deficit rises to $77 billion as revenues come in low following tax cuts

Joseph Lawler · August 10, 2018 6:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Three ways the Senate could have avoided losing August recess

Rachel Bovard · August 7, 2018 8:10 pm