Tag: Budgets and Deficits

A Republican-controlled Congress passed a spending bill on Friday that would bust the spending caps by $296 billion over the next two years, among other effects. This makes Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his stand against the bill all the more important. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

Rand Paul acted like a Republican should act, and everyone else should take notes

Adam Brandon · February 13, 2018 7:18 pm

The Daily Standard Podcast Returns!

TWS Podcast · February 13, 2018 6:56 pm

"We have too much now, I think," Mick Mulvaney said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the White House fiscal year 2019 budget that he unveiled Monday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Mick Mulvaney: Federal debt is already too high

Joseph Lawler · February 13, 2018 4:56 pm

The analysis released Tuesday estimates that the cost of the opioid crisis increased from $29.1 billion in 2001 to $115 billion in 2017. It comes as Congress is adding more money to fight the epidemic. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Opioid crisis cost US more than $1 trillion since 2001

Robert King · February 13, 2018 3:05 pm

"Over the long term horizon, we've got to get this debt under control and the only way to do that is entitlement reform," Paul Ryan said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Paul Ryan says he’s still a deficit hawk, ‘never going to give up on entitlement reform’

Joseph Lawler · February 13, 2018 2:27 pm

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has maintained the Republican Party is committed to bringing down the national debt, but timing is everything. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

John Cornyn: GOP hasn’t given up on reducing deficits and debt

Al Weaver · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

The White House budget proposal unveiled Monday offers several measures to help lower drug prices. However, none of the proposals directly address the problem of expensive, specialty drugs, experts say. (iStock)

Trump budget’s reforms unlikely to make big dent in high drug prices, experts say

Robert King · February 13, 2018 1:07 am

"Our country faces urgent threats from North Korea, Iran and terrorists around the world. Programs that are vital to our national interests should be prioritized." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Republican stiff-arms State Department budget proposal

Joel Gehrke · February 12, 2018 11:26 pm

Sen. Bill Cassidy said that groundswell could start as states begin to shoulder more of the financial burden of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. (Zach Gibson/ Bloomberg)

Bill Cassidy says it’s unlikely Republicans will take another stab at Obamacare alone

Robert King · February 12, 2018 10:47 pm

As a member of Congress, Mick Mulvaney was a deficit hawk. As director of the Office of Management and Budget, he has been unable this year to piece together a budget request that balances. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mick Mulvaney defends his nonbalancing budget

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 10:26 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to complete designations for all of the non-compliant areas that do not meet its ozone rules no later than April 30, the agency announced in the Federal Register Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Proposed EPA cuts dovetail with Trump infrastructure plan

John Siciliano · February 12, 2018 9:37 pm

The proposal is for families to receive some of their benefits "in the form of a USDA Foods package" that would include cereal, pasta, peanut butter, beans, meat, and canned fruit. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump administration proposes sending food directly to low-income families

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 9:04 pm