Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Senior White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, on the upcoming G7 summit.

Larry Kudlow: Trump still aims to lower federal deficit, despite $1 trillion projection for 2019

Naomi Lim · July 29, 2018 2:39 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017.

Trump warns of rocky September: Willing to ‘shut down’ government over border security

Daniel Chaitin · July 29, 2018 1:35 pm

Senate GOP leaders may be able to rest easy in the next elections. From left, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After House bolts for summer, Senate plows ahead on nominations, spending bills, and a hearing on Russian bots

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2018 4:00 am

Website Congress created to track spending is mostly inaccurate

Joseph Lawler · July 24, 2018 3:00 pm

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walk through Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Bipartisanship only makes the federal debt crisis worse

Jake Grant · July 23, 2018 8:52 pm

Vehicles are stranded on a Worcester, Mass., street during flash flooding from storms.

Next week: House to extend broke flood insurance program before leaving town

Susan Ferrechio · July 21, 2018 1:00 pm

An Interview With Senator Lankford

TWS Podcast · July 18, 2018 9:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

Congress opened the floodgates on pork-barrel spending in 2018

Cole Carnick · July 18, 2018 2:00 pm

Noting that Congress is set for recess in the coming days, Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossello said in a letter Saturday to congressional leaders of both parties: "I implore you to use this critical window of opportunity" to approve emergency funding.

Federal judge says hedge funds can sue over Puerto Rico debt

Joseph Lawler · July 16, 2018 2:29 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Beltway Confidential

Federal government studies sex life of coked-out quail; Sen. Rand Paul angry

Philip Wegmann · July 11, 2018 8:49 pm

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., arrives for a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., later gave an upbeat assessment to reporters after brokering a deal between party factions on a process to consider rival GOP immigration plans to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.

House spending bill adds provision to end family separation at border

Susan Ferrechio · July 11, 2018 7:57 pm

Employment boom forces Republicans and Democrats to rethink economic policy

Joseph Lawler · July 10, 2018 12:00 am