Tag: Budgets and Deficits

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ponders a question during a town hall meeting with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther Kin Jr., Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Jackson, Miss.

Bernie Sanders calls for repeal of GOP tax law

Al Weaver · April 9, 2018 8:23 pm

Interest on debt to eclipse defense spending within five years

Joseph Lawler · April 9, 2018 6:00 pm

Trillion deficits returning in 2020 indefinitely, budget office says

Joseph Lawler · April 9, 2018 6:00 pm

Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., greets President Trump to speak to the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner in Washington.

Rep. Mark Walker: A balanced budget amendment is only one step

Rep. Mark Walker · April 9, 2018 2:51 pm

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks to reporters outside the White House, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington.

Larry Kudlow: White House planning for package to rescind spending from $1.3 trillion omnibus bill

Naomi Lim · April 8, 2018 1:46 pm

Donald Trump Robert Mueller

GOP plans major votes on tax cuts, balanced budget, welfare reform

Susan Ferrechio · April 8, 2018 4:01 am

President Trump walks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump feeling regret over signing omnibus spending bill: Report

Katie Leach · April 7, 2018 7:40 pm

State audit exposes retiring college president’s $381,000 parting gift

John Patrick · April 6, 2018 3:36 pm

President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and other members of congress, speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, to acknowledge the final passage of tax overhaul legislation by congress.

No excuse for Republicans not to cut spending now

Washington Examiner · April 5, 2018 10:26 pm

Works move corn to a storage bin at the Heartland Co-op, Thursday, April 5, 2018, in Redfield, Iowa.

Beltway Confidential

Great news! US trade surplus on capital rises to 9.5-year high

Tim Worstall · April 5, 2018 8:23 pm

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.

Here’s the spending Trump and the GOP could cut — and Democrats couldn’t stop

Joseph Lawler · April 5, 2018 4:01 am

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has rejected the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare's umbrella. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin: Teachers protesting state education budget like teenagers wanting ‘a better car’

Naomi Lim · April 4, 2018 8:30 pm