Tag: Budgets and Deficits

In his fiscal 2017 budget, then-President Barack Obama sought to increase the spending cap on defense spending by $35 billion. Two years later, a deal hashed out by congressional leaders would increase that cap by $80 billion to $629 billion. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Bipartisan budget deal would lift caps even more than Obama asked for

Joseph Lawler · February 8, 2018 10:25 pm

Plan to expand access to association health plans would mean higher premiums on the Obamacare exchanges. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ending Obamacare’s cost-cutting panel would cost $17 billion

Robert King · February 8, 2018 10:20 pm

A spokesman for Rand Paul said the senator was seeking a vote to restore the budget caps that members of both parties are looking to ignore in order to boost spending and nondefense spending in an omnibus spending bill they want to pass next month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul delaying Senate vote to avoid shutdown to protest budget deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 9:20 pm

The agreement would require the Energy Department to sell 100 million barrels of oil from the reserve, with 30 million barrels to be sold between fiscal 2022 and 2025, 35 million barrels in 2026, and another 35 million in 2027. (AP Photo/Energy Department)

Energy and Environment

Senate budget deal requires more sales from oil reserve

Josh Siegel · February 8, 2018 7:27 pm

On Thursday, leaders from the House and Senate were on track to reaching a spending deal that would fund the government continuously for two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress on track for Thursday vote to avoid government shutdown, lay groundwork for budget deal

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2018 6:36 pm

"This is a bipartisan bill. It's going to need bipartisan support. We are going to deliver our share of support," House Speaker Paul Ryan said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Paul Ryan believes he has the votes to pass two-year budget deal

Melissa Quinn · February 8, 2018 4:28 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks to the media, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi: Budget deal a ‘good bill,’ but won’t support without DACA vote promise

Al Weaver · February 8, 2018 3:32 pm

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. (iStock photo)

Conservatives accuse GOP of ditching fiscal restraint with new spending deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 12:54 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases. It would also lift the debt ceiling until March 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Spending deal would lift debt ceiling past election, into March 2019

Joseph Lawler · February 7, 2018 11:47 pm

President Trump tweeted in support of a bipartisan government spending deal reached by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signals support for bipartisan budget deal

Melissa Quinn · February 7, 2018 11:07 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced a new two-year budget deal Wednesday. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Deficit hawks bash bipartisan Senate spending bill

Joseph Lawler · February 7, 2018 11:01 pm

"The victims are the ones who do not want this exposed," Speier said, adding that she sees it as her role to protect the victims. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

The Senate budget deal is one of the worst ever

Quin Hillyer · February 7, 2018 10:51 pm