Tag: Budgets and Deficits

File- This Jan. 22, 2018, file photo shows Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney talking during a television interview outside the White House in Washington. Mulvaney, the former tea party congressman who runs the White House budget office, said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, that Trump's new budget, if implemented, would tame the deficit over time, though unlike last year's submission, it wouldn't promise to balance the federal ledger eventually. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump’s budget will propose cutting $3 trillion, set goal of reducing the debt rather than balancing the budget

Joseph Lawler, Kyle Feldscher · February 12, 2018 2:00 am

"The decision to end direct federal support for the ISS in 2025 does not imply that the platform itself will be deorbited at that time — it is possible that industry could continue to operate certain elements or capabilities of the ISS as part of a future commercial platform," an internal NASA document obtained by the Washington Post reads. (NASA via AP)

Trump administration looking to privatize International Space Station: Report

Naomi Lim · February 11, 2018 10:00 pm

U.S. military troops load jugs of drinking water into a helicopter at the airport in Port-au-Prince Haiti, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. A group of generals wrote a letter to President Trump encouraging him not to cut funding to diplomatic and humanitarian programs. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

150 retired generals ask Congress not to cut diplomatic spending

Steven Nelson · February 11, 2018 8:41 pm

"I will support a package consistent with what the voters said," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Jim Jordan: Freedom Caucus won’t support joint immigration package with the border wall, DACA

Naomi Lim · February 11, 2018 5:58 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows said the spending deal, in which Republicans agreed to more domestic spending in exchange for a massive bump in military funds, shows influence-peddling in Washington has grown worse, not better. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mark Meadows: ‘The swamp is obviously deeper’ in Washington under Trump

Steven Nelson · February 11, 2018 5:50 pm

"The budget does bend the trajectory down, it does move us back towards balance, it does get us away from trillion dollar deficits. Just because this deal was signed does not mean the future is written in stone," Mick Mulvaney said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mick Mulvaney: Two-year budget deal passed by Congress not ‘written in stone’

Naomi Lim · February 11, 2018 4:50 pm

Last year, states passed more than double the number of laws attacking high drug prices than in 2016, and in 2018, legislatures show no signs of stopping. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

States tired of waiting for feds to tackle high drug prices

Robert King · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

Tiny Berea College’s $1 million tax reprieve shows how the sausage gets made

Joseph Lawler · February 11, 2018 12:01 am

In the early hours of Friday morning, the federal government had a partial shutdown for the second time in 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

The second government shutdown: Explained

Siraj Hashmi · February 9, 2018 11:27 pm

Freshman Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has become a favorite of the media for his vocal defense of President Trump in the Russia investigation. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Matt Gaetz: The boy politician making the most of his Trump moment

Philip Wegmann · February 9, 2018 10:59 pm

Russ Vought would take over at OMB if President Trump decided to give Mick Mulvaney a promotion. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Sen. John Cornyn releases hold on Russ Vought (and possibly clears way for Mick Mulvaney to become White House chief of staff)

Philip Wegmann · February 9, 2018 6:00 pm

Moody's specifically cited the tax cut signed into law by President Trump in January, which is estimated to add around $1 trillion to deficits over the next decade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Moody’s: US finances set to ‘deteriorate,’ risking credit rating

Joseph Lawler · February 9, 2018 5:30 pm