Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Here are four graphs that show just how doomed the federal budget is if Congress and the president don't do anything about it. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Why the federal budget is doomed, in 4 graphs

Jason Russell · July 12, 2016 8:09 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, center, and the committee's ranking member, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., left, discussed the Affordable Care Act's costs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Lawmakers wrangle over Obamacare costs

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 12, 2016 3:23 pm

The record high for federal debt held by the public was set at 106 percent of output in 1945, after the run-up in defense spending for the military effort in World War II. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg, File)

Federal debt headed toward all-time record, budget office says

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2016 2:01 pm

Revenue climbed 1 percent in the first three-quarters of the fiscal year, but spending rose 4 percent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Budget office: Deficit up $81 billion in nine months

Joseph Lawler · July 8, 2016 8:50 pm

Landowners in 12 states will be eligible to participate in the program. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Energy and Environment

Dept. of Agriculture dumps $49 million into project to make wetlands wetter

Anna Giaritelli · July 8, 2016 12:44 am

The bill would allow that spending only in the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

GOP proposes $390 million in new Zika funding for 2017

Pete Kasperowicz · July 7, 2016 12:25 am

The grant intends to support programs that prevent recruitment and radicalization. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

National Security

DHS offers $10 million counterterrorism grant

Maria Biery · July 6, 2016 6:00 pm

The bill was designed to spin our nation's air traffic controllers off into a quasi-private agency. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

AIRR Disaster: Air traffic control reform a boom for unions, a bust for taxpayers

Russ Brown · July 5, 2016 4:01 am

Finance and Economy

National debt jumps nearly $100 billion in one day to record high

Pete Kasperowicz · July 2, 2016 4:01 am

Funding would go towards 53 state, city and U.S. territory health departments in areas that are at risk. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Feds deliver $25 million to states to fight Zika

Robert King · July 1, 2016 4:31 pm

The huge payment included $1 billion worth of "guaranteed debt service obligations" that will go unpaid. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Puerto Rico defaults, warns of ‘dire’ fiscal picture

Pete Kasperowicz · July 1, 2016 12:34 pm

Study says total economic value of the parks is 30 times the $3 billion budget given by Congress. (AP Photo/Matt Volz, File)

Energy and Environment

Study: National parks worth $92 billion annually

Kyle Feldscher · June 30, 2016 5:35 pm