Tag: Budgets and Deficits

At the very least, Trump's budget is showing conservatives which Republicans are serious about cutting spending and which ones are not. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s budget not perfect, but a step in the right direction

Jason Pye · May 24, 2017 7:31 pm

This budget is going nowhere, and it's the administration's fault. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

The good, the bad, and the terrible of Trump’s budget proposal

Veronique De · May 24, 2017 7:24 pm

Scalise continued, "I can't fill out my own tax return and if I call this 1-800 number five different times, I literally get five different answers." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans pin down postcard-sized tax return as message ‘that gets people excited’ about tax reform

Jeremy Beaman · May 24, 2017 7:22 pm

Energy and Environment

Mulvaney’s ‘crazy’ climate play featured a plan to foil Paris deal

John Siciliano · May 24, 2017 6:56 pm

Trump’s Budget: Old-School Conservatism Meets Ivanka-Style Spending

TWS Podcast · May 24, 2017 6:49 pm

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that the deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling may come earlier than projected because of weaker-than-expected government revenues. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mnuchin asks for clean debt ceiling increase before August

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2017 5:45 pm

"This is a budget -- and I characterized it, Mr. Chairman, in the [agriculture] appropriations committee this morning -- it is cruel, it is inhumane, and it is heartless," Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rosa DeLauro calls Trump education budget ‘inhumane,’ ‘cruel’

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2017 5:37 pm

The Navy is focusing on maintaining and improving the availability of its current fleet, Stackley said. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)

The White House didn’t cut the Navy’s shipbuilding budget, acting secretary says

Travis J. Tritten · May 24, 2017 4:28 pm

Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., criticized the Trump administration's education budget on Wednesday by saying it was written by privileged administration officials who could easily afford college for their kids. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nita Lowey: Education cuts proposed by Trump officials who ‘never had to worry’ about paying for school

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2017 4:13 pm

Muppets creator Jim Henson's company "has been paying the highest corporate tax rate in the world for the last several years," budget director says. (AP)

Mulvaney: We’re giving Big Bird a tax cut

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2017 4:12 pm

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney clarified Wednesday that the Trump administration isn't looking to cut the "Meals on Wheels" program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mulvaney clarifies: No cuts to Meals on Wheels

Joseph Lawler · May 24, 2017 2:40 pm

Trump’s Budget Gets a Hearing on Capitol Hill

Michael Warren · May 24, 2017 9:00 am