Tag: Budgets and Deficits

RIP, Fiscal Conservatism

Haley Byrd, Michael Warren · February 16, 2018 8:00 am

The market demand for certain types of graduates is beginning to shape governmental policy priorities, as seen in the Trump administration's new budget proposal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Proposed Trump budget expands access to vocational programs

Kate Hardiman · February 16, 2018 5:01 am

Students graduating college with debt can be faced with a dizzying array of options, leading them to choose one that will drive them further into debt; President Trump's budget proposal may fix that. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

Trump’s budget majorly impact student loans, but is it a bad thing?

Kate Hardiman · February 15, 2018 7:49 pm

Trump's fiscal 2019 budget request to Congress and infrastructure plan propose selling off the transmission line assets of the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the largest federally owned public utilities, with the Bonneville Power Administration, a large federal electric utility in the Northwest. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Energy and Environment

Moody’s gives a big thumbs down to Trump’s idea of selling off federal utilities

John Siciliano · February 15, 2018 7:04 pm

The scandal surrounding former White House press secretary Rob Porter was not the only story Tuesday, but it was the only story most of the press corps cared to ask about. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media turn Rob Porter from a story into the only story

Washington Examiner · February 15, 2018 5:01 am

The president is reportedly interested in a military parade taking place down Pennsylvania Avenue and potentially occurring on Veterans Day, which this year coincides with the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I.

National Security

Trump’s military parade would cost between $10 million and $30 million, budget director estimates

Melissa Quinn · February 14, 2018 4:18 pm

Conservatives have long despised the cost-sharing reduction payments and President Trump halted the payments back in October. (iStock photo)

Conservative groups furious over budget nod to Obamacare payments

Robert King · February 14, 2018 3:22 pm

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is, in effect, collateral damage from the tax law. It has large deferred tax assets from the financial crisis, essentially losses that it is allowed to write off against tax liabilities. With lower tax rates in the future, those tax assets are now worth less, resulting in accounting losses. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Fannie Mae needs $3.7 billion from the Treasury thanks to tax cuts

Joseph Lawler · February 14, 2018 2:47 pm

Beltway Confidential

House conservatives threaten to upend leadership over immigration

Susan Ferrechio · February 14, 2018 1:06 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a late-night filibuster last week of the bipartisan spending bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

No-compromise conservatives deserve blame for the new government spending boom

Michael Steel · February 14, 2018 1:00 pm

Greece began to suffer its infamous, devastating debt crisis late last decade when its government debt began rising rapidly above 100 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. Now, the U.S. is set to boost its debt-to-GDP ratio significantly above its already dangerous level of 105.4. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Beltway Confidential

Greece is the word: Fiscal recklessness portends a crash

Quin Hillyer · February 14, 2018 12:10 am

"It's unacceptable that programs that matter to #Florida could see cuts while the gov't continues to bail out private insurers to protect them from consequences of Obamacare," Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted Tuesday.

Marco Rubio bashes Obamacare payments in Trump budget

Robert King · February 13, 2018 7:38 pm