Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

Joel Gehrke · November 6, 2017 10:00 pm

From left, Sens. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Al Franken, D-Minn., attend a news conference with Democratic senators and environmental groups on the east lawn of the Capitol to oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on October 17. (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Energy and Environment

Will the energy industry even want to drill in ANWR?

Josh Siegel · November 6, 2017 5:01 am

"I am a no," Lankford said when asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he'd vote against the bill if it raised the nation's debt too much. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Republican James Lankford promises to vote against tax reform if it raises the debt too much

Kyle Feldscher · November 5, 2017 4:52 pm

"Even though we're looking at a $1.5 trillion increase in that deficit in the short run, preliminary numbers really look very good in terms of economic growth," said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mark Meadows justifies support for tax reform by pointing to long-term growth

Kyle Feldscher · November 5, 2017 3:53 pm

"We have an active conversation with our members on a whole host of ideas on things to add to this bill and that's one of the things being discussed," he said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Paul Ryan: Repeal of Obamacare individual mandate in tax reform ‘being discussed’

Naomi Lim · November 5, 2017 3:42 pm

If the government wants to line the pockets of insurance companies with taxpayer dollars, Congress needs to appropriate it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Healthcare premiums keep rising, but Trump’s actions will help

Nathan Nascimento · November 2, 2017 10:02 pm

DACA gives nearly 800,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children the ability to work and stay in the U.S., but Republicans say that kind of program should have been created by legislation, not unilaterally by President Obama. (Chieko Hara/The Porterville Recorder via AP)

DACA fix won’t be included in year-end spending bill

Al Weaver · November 2, 2017 6:31 pm

The ANWR provision, as it was advanced by the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee, violates the Byrd Rule governing budget reconciliation, according to a Democratic source.
(AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Energy and Environment

Lisa Murkowski says drilling in Alaska refuge can raise $1 billion

Josh Siegel · November 2, 2017 4:28 pm

The National Park Service is hoping to tackle its deferred maintenance backlog of over $11 billion. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

How to help national parks without soaking American families

Matthew Anderson · November 2, 2017 4:01 am

Wildfires have raged across the West recently. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)

Energy and Environment

House passes wildfire management bill

Josh Siegel · November 2, 2017 2:41 am

House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have charged their Republican colleagues with attempting to chip away at Obamacare programs after past attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act failed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House panel advances child insurance, Obamacare bills to full vote

Robert King · November 1, 2017 10:33 pm

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who has opposed other Obamacare repeal and replacement efforts from her GOP colleagues this year, is considered a critical vote for the tax reform legislation.(AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Susan Collins doesn’t back eliminating estate tax, lowering individual tax rate for wealthy

Diana Stancy Correll · October 31, 2017 12:24 am