Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The Interior Department awarded Berkley, Calif.-based 3D Robotics a $256,000 contract to build 40 three-pound unmanned aerial drones customized for the agency's specific needs. (3D Robotics)

Energy and Environment

Interior Department building its own drone air force

John Siciliano · August 22, 2016 8:55 pm

The warning comes as parents across the country prepare their kids to go back to school. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS: Don’t get tricked into paying ‘student tax’

Pete Kasperowicz · August 18, 2016 6:06 pm

Untruths, when repeatedly spread on traditional and social media, quickly become embedded in the public psyche, especially when members of Congress seem content to wave a magic rhetorical wand declaring the appropriations bills earmark-free and move on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Pork is alive and well

Thomas Schatz · August 18, 2016 4:03 am

The New York Times scolded Gov. Mario Cuomo for not using the tax credit funds to help public school students instead, but the reform would largely leave public schools unaffected. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Study: School choice saves money for public school districts

Jason Russell · August 17, 2016 4:25 pm

Social Security Trust Funds are projected to become insolvent in 2034. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

How old will you be when the Social Security fund runs out?

Jason Russell · August 15, 2016 10:59 pm

The Zika funding bill attaches an extra phrase onto language describing how some of the funding that could go to Planned Parenthood can be allocated. (AP Photo)

Judge blocks Ohio from defunding Planned Parenthood

Robert King · August 12, 2016 4:51 pm

Researchers won't have enough money to start preparing testing sites in late fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Health officials say lack of Zika funding will stymie vaccine development

Paige Winfield Cunningham · August 11, 2016 7:07 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that, with interest rates low, the U.S. should borrow money to spend on infrastructure rather than lowering the $14 trillion federal debt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump reverses on federal debt: ‘This is the time to borrow’

Joseph Lawler · August 11, 2016 12:47 pm

The federal deficit is on pace to post its first increase for a full fiscal year since 2011. (iStock photo)

Deficit rises to $514 billion through July

Joseph Lawler · August 10, 2016 6:45 pm

After a seven-week recess, the Senate will spend September and one week in October working in the nation's capital. The House will be in Washington even less, as it is out of session the entire month of October. (iStock photo)

The one thing Congress must do this year and two measures that will die

Joel Gehrke · August 8, 2016 4:01 am

Federal tax receipts for the first ten months of the fiscal year hit a new record in July. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

$2.67 trillion: Federal tax receipts through July hit record

Rudy Takala · August 6, 2016 4:01 am

National security fears and the presidential election have dominated the political discourse over the past year, but that uptick marks a sharp increase from the 2015 fiscal year, when the deficit fell to $439 billion. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Budget office: Deficit jumps to $590 billion

Joel Gehrke · August 5, 2016 9:29 pm