Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The task of fixing Congress’ broken spending process starts next week

Susan Ferrechio · May 2, 2018 2:29 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Mark Meadows: Rod Rosenstein should go if he thinks being asked to do his job is ‘extortion’

Naomi Lim · May 1, 2018 11:00 pm

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens during a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.

Senators dream of passing spending bills in regular order

Susan Ferrechio · May 1, 2018 12:00 am

Congress creates website to track reform of dysfunctional spending process

Susan Ferrechio · April 30, 2018 4:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Congress is just as broken as its budget

Jake Grant · April 30, 2018 4:00 am

Representative Mark Walker, a Republican from North Carolina, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Walker discussed the likelihood of U.S. tax reform.

Conservatives push for balanced budget, permanent tax cuts in 2019 budget plan

Al Weaver · April 25, 2018 6:00 pm

A doctor checks a patient.

Beltway Confidential

A disturbing number of Americans want socialized healthcare

Sally Pipes · April 19, 2018 4:06 pm

CORRECTS FROM MORAVIS TO MOROVIS- Luis Cosme poses sitting in an armchair in what is left of his house destroyed by Hurricane Maria, in Morovis, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Cosme, a worker at a cleaning company, felt the high winds and ran to the shelter at the Catholic church building. In the morning he came out and saw his house gone. "Thank God I am alive" he said.

Restoring Puerto Rico’s fiscal outlook

Carlos Mercader · April 18, 2018 4:00 am

National Security

Mac Thornberry wants to slash Pentagon support budget by $25 billion; cites waste and bloat

Travis J. Tritten · April 17, 2018 2:17 pm

"We should not be banning guns from law-abiding citizens," Paul Ryan said after a closed-door meeting with Republicans Tuesday. "We should be focusing on making sure citizens who should not be getting guns in the first place don't get those guns."

Beltway Confidential

Republicans’ behind-the-scenes fight to replace Paul Ryan

Susan Ferrechio · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks with the Washington Examiner in his office on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan for speaker? Not so fast, GOP members say

Al Weaver · April 13, 2018 5:12 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan can’t win, but Kevin McCarthy can lose the race for speaker of the House

Philip Wegmann · April 13, 2018 4:44 pm