Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently headed by acting director Mick Mulvaney — the same person who, in his other role as director of the Office of Management and Budget, called for the cuts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mick Mulvaney proposes to gut CFPB he currently leads

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 8:31 pm

The budget also includes money for other layers of the U.S. missile defense system, including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense and the Aegis system, which can be deployed on ships or on land. (Missile Defense Agency photo)

National Security

Trump defense budget adds $10 billion, 20 interceptors to bolster missile shield

Jamie McIntyre · February 12, 2018 8:18 pm

New leases for energy development on onshore and offshore federal lands would pay for an $18 billion fund for the parks, which would be set up by Congress. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Energy and Environment

Interior budget seeks to repair national parks using energy leasing revenue

Josh Siegel · February 12, 2018 8:04 pm

The proposal includes $5 billion over five years that would go toward fighting the opioid epidemic, which is responsible for most drug overdose deaths and involves overdoses from prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and illegal drugs like heroin and fentanyl. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Trump requests $5 billion for opioid battle in budget proposal

Kimberly Leonard · February 12, 2018 7:57 pm

"We did not ask for that in this budget. We've asked for it a number of times in the past without much success," said David Norquist, the Pentagon comptroller. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Pentagon drops effort to close unneeded military bases that cost $2 billion per year

Travis J. Tritten · February 12, 2018 7:27 pm

Nearly half the department's budget would go toward "America's long-term national security." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry beefs up nuclear weapons spending over renewables in fiscal 2019 budget

John Siciliano · February 12, 2018 7:21 pm

"Public broadcasting has earned bipartisan congressional support over the years thanks to the value we provide to taxpayers," PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger said. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

PBS slams Trump for zeroing out budget

Melissa Quinn · February 12, 2018 7:17 pm

"The budget is a statement of our values, but the president's brutal collection of broken promises and staggering cuts shows he does not value the future of seniors, children and working families," Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi: Trump budget would ‘compound the cruelty’ of GOP tax bill

Al Weaver · February 12, 2018 7:16 pm

Club for Growth is releasing a short ad, running digitally and on local television, criticizing Rep. Markwayne Mullin on fiscal issues and on abandoning a self-imposed term limits pledge. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Club for Growth targeting Rep. Markwayne Mullin

David M. Drucker · February 12, 2018 6:57 pm

The Air Force has 76 B-52s based primarily in Barksdale Air Force Base, La.; Minot Air Force Base, N.D., and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

National Security

Cold War-era B-52 to outlive younger, sleeker rival Air Force bombers

Jamie McIntyre · February 12, 2018 6:39 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said President Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget "lays out a thoughtful, detailed, and responsible blueprint for achieving our shared agenda." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan praises Trump’s ‘thoughtful’ budget and infrastructure plan

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 6:09 pm

The next fight over the tax credit will more than likely come in the farm bill. (Micah Walter/Bloomberg News)

Beltway Confidential

Biofuel boom: Budget deal gives away $2.6 billion to biodiesel industry

Philip Wegmann · February 12, 2018 6:08 pm