Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Republicans have either cut funding or held funding level for the IRS over the last several years, after the IRS targeting scandal erupted under President Obama. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP freezes IRS funding in 2017 spending plan

Pete Kasperowicz · May 1, 2017 2:50 pm

More than half of the increase —" $9 billion —" is tagged for getting forces better trained and prepared to fight while $2.5 billion is for wartime needs such as munitions and spare parts that directly support deployed troops. (Justin Connaher/U.S. Air Force via AP)

National Security

Budget deal nets $15B more in defense war fund

Travis J. Tritten · May 1, 2017 2:35 pm

Mike Pence praises spending bill as ‘bipartisan win for the American people’

Kyle Feldscher · May 1, 2017 2:08 pm

Republican and Democratic lawmakers agreed to a $1.070 trillion package to fund the government through September 30. Above, House Speaker Paul Ryan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lawmakers strike budget deal to fund government through Sept. 30

Kimberly Leonard, Daniel Chaitin · May 1, 2017 2:02 am

"The truth is if we don't get this economy growing at three percent, or more, as the president believes that we can, we're never going to meet the obligations that we've made today." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pence: ‘Short term’ deficit growth possible under Trump tax plan

John Siciliano · April 30, 2017 2:20 pm

Trump's plans for a military buildup could be dead in the water without Congress lifting the 2018 spending cap set to hold the defense budget at $549 billion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Once shutdown talks are done, a much bigger deal on defense spending awaits

Travis J. Tritten · April 30, 2017 4:01 am

While the GOP tries to sort out the details on healthcare, it will also shoot for passage of a spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Next week: Do or die for Obamacare repeal?

Susan Ferrechio · April 30, 2017 4:01 am

Ricardo Rossello decried claims that the U.S. territory will self-implode if it does not reach an agreement. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rican governor: ‘False narrative that Monday, the world ends’

Anna Giaritelli · April 29, 2017 7:44 pm

Without money from Congress, the governor believes a system-wide collapse will cause Puerto Ricans' mass exodus from the island to escalate. (Press Secretary, Puerto Rico Governor's Office)

Beltway Confidential

Puerto Rican governor argues Medicaid money is ‘not a bail out,’ could save government billions over time

Emily Jashinsky · April 29, 2017 7:07 pm

Both the Trump administration and prominent members of Congress have said that they would like to avoid such a disruptive and unpopular impasse. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump ducks government shutdown for one more week

Jeremy Lott · April 29, 2017 12:25 am

Trump Goes Bigly on Tax Reform

Fred Barnes · April 28, 2017 8:00 am

"They keep moving the goalpost, and the issue right now is to make sure that we do what's in the best interest of this country and our people by keeping the government open," Spicer said. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Sean Spicer rules out Puerto Rico debt fix in spending bill

Pete Kasperowicz · April 27, 2017 6:07 pm