Tag: Budgets and Deficits

John James, the Republican trying to unseat Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says he is torn over the GOP budget deal that passed earlier in February. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Is it a defense or fiscal hawk running against Sen. Debbie Stabenow? Michigan’s John James is ‘torn’ over Republican budget deal

Philip Wegmann · February 22, 2018 9:56 pm

Supporters say a vehicle miles traveled tax is more fair than increasing the gasoline tax because it would apply to electric and hybrid vehicles. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Energy and Environment

Trump administration signals support for mileage tax to pay for infrastructure plan

Josh Siegel · February 22, 2018 4:41 pm

The Trump administration unveiled a budget plan that cuts domestic spending, but does not balance the budget within a decade, which misses a fiscal goal most conservatives are seeking. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

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Trump’s budget shows peril of surging Social Security and Medicare costs

Brian Riedl · February 21, 2018 4:53 pm

President Trump vowed during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, roughly a month after his inauguration, that he would return again and again to the conference he said he loved. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House plans to flood the CPAC zone

Sarah Bedford · February 21, 2018 5:01 am

Many Republicans have problems with provisions dealing with immigrant farm workers, while others don't like the immigration reduction numbers and mandatory E-Verify, which are also opposed by the business community.

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Immigration reform faces high hurdle in the House

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

The budget proposal Trump's White House released days later would raise deficits by as much as $7 trillion over 10 years if enacted.

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Deficits drive a wedge between Trump and fiscal conservatives

Sarah Bedford · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

In this 2017 photo, President Trump arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump is set to speak again at this year's CPAC, but some of his initiatives are unpopular among the movement conservatives who dominate CPAC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Is Trump conservative enough, and does CPAC care?

W. James Antle III · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

Already, the U.S. Treasury's outstanding public debt of $14.2 trillion at the end of September accounted for a big portion of the $40.3 trillion bond market and dwarfed some $8.7 billion in corporate debt.

Budget bloat and big borrowing bother business

James Langford · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

Trains are parked in a rail yard on New York's west side used by Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and the Long Island Railroad. The rail yard is now covered by the Hudson Yards development. A proposed commuter rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey would connect with this rail yard. A prominent New York City developer who has advised the Trump administration on infrastructure refuted reports he was cheering on the president's decision not to pay for half of the estimated $13 billion price tag for the project. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Next on infrastructure: How much funding feds should kick in

Diana Stancy Correll · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

Army Secretary Mark Esper said he has been meeting with members of Congress about relaxing a Sept. 30 deadline for using its annual operations and maintenance funds, an account that is about 40 percent of the total Pentagon budget. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The military, flush with cash, is asking lawmakers for more time to spend it all

Travis J. Tritten · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he and his wife Janna have not yet discussed his possible re-election campaign. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Paul Ryan: Wife and I haven’t discussed re-election, leadership plans yet

Naomi Lim · February 18, 2018 8:26 pm

Kevin Hassett described himself as worried about federal deficits and debt, even though in recent months Trump has signed a $1.5 trillion tax cut bill and a $320 billion two-year spending bill. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump’s economic adviser defends tax cut’s effect on debt

Joseph Lawler · February 16, 2018 6:33 pm