Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The Department of Energy plans to sell 14 million barrels of the nation's 40-year-old crude oil reserve this month as a way to bring in revenue to the Treasury. (AP Photo/Energy Department)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department to sell 14 million barrels from Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Josh Siegel · August 15, 2017 11:22 pm

Lawmakers are heading into the fall with no clear path to passing proposed increases in defense spending, and analysts say it is likely they will pass a months-long continuing resolution at the end of September that would hold military spending to current levels. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jim Mattis calls looming stop-gap budget ‘as unwise as can be’ for military

Travis J. Tritten · August 15, 2017 4:49 pm

NIH budget cuts will damage ‘The American System’

joe-black, sandip-shah · August 10, 2017 4:01 am

When we make our arguments about the costs and benefits of our preferred policies, we should at least be willing to explain how and why our policies would work. (Twitter)

Would it really kill the CBO to show its work?

Ross Marchand · August 9, 2017 4:01 am

The committee approved both nominees, who were both strongly opposed by Democrats, on party lines. They now go before the full Senate for a vote. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Rep. Mark Walker: A clean debt ceiling is dirty politics

Rep. Mark Walker · August 7, 2017 9:33 pm

President Trump's budget says the entire Economic Development Administration should be scrapped, saving $220 million next year. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s Commerce Department celebrates ‘American Dream Week’ by touting subsidy agency Trump budget would kill

Timothy P. Carney · August 4, 2017 12:43 pm

Rocketdyne claims the move to Huntsville is motivated by the lesser regulatory and tax burden in Mississippi and Alabama vs. California. But it's also a fact that the move will benefit the constituencies of Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama (pictured) and Thad Cochran of Mississippi.

Rocketdyne moves to the South, and ‘pull’ is its reason

Eric Peters · August 4, 2017 4:01 am

When we make our arguments about the costs and benefits of our preferred policies, we should at least be willing to explain how and why our policies would work. (Twitter)

Sen. Mike Lee: Make the CBO show its work

Mike Lee · August 4, 2017 4:01 am

Mulvaney was supposed to be their guy on the inside, the budget guy balancing the books for once. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Mick Mulvaney backs down: White House to support ‘clean’ debt ceiling

Philip Wegmann · August 3, 2017 6:52 pm

Meet the Leaner, Meaner, Crowd-Sourced State Department

Jeryl Bier · August 3, 2017 3:35 pm

The Defense Department on Tuesday submitted to Congress a report mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which outlines a proposed restructuring "to better pursue the goals of technological superiority, affordable systems, and well managed business operations." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon unveils plan to overhaul bureaucracy, buy weapons faster

Jamie McIntyre · August 2, 2017 4:57 pm

Donald Trump campaigned on tax reform, and he is pushing Congress to deliver, but his signing of a bill is still months away. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Trump takes one step forward, one step back on tax reform

Chris Edwards · July 28, 2017 9:21 pm