Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The budget plan released Tuesday contains $1 billion in new funding over the next two years to boost efforts to help individuals seek treatment for opioid abuse, the document said. (AP Photo)

Better access to treatment for opioid abuse, mental health in budget

Robert King · February 9, 2016 11:44 pm

The House and Senate Budget Committees announced last week they won't even hold a hearing on the proposal. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

GOP rejects Obama’s ‘spending wish list’

Susan Ferrechio · February 9, 2016 11:44 pm

An administration official said it's unfair to characterize the $955 billion in new tax revenue as a tax hike. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WH budget: $955 billion in closed tax ‘loopholes’ not a tax hike

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2016 11:41 pm

Late last year, Congress passed, and President Obama signed, a spending bill delaying the Cadillac tax by two years, until 2020, and many experts think it's likely lawmakers will never allow it to go into effect. (AP Photo)

Obama tries to save Obamacare’s Cadillac tax

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 9, 2016 11:40 pm

"This OCO budget provides us everything we need we believe right now to execute our global operations," Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told reporters at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

National Security

DOD insists $58.8 billion OCO budget is plenty

Jacqueline Klimas · February 9, 2016 11:26 pm

Two Navy V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors did not make it into the $582.7 billion budget. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

National Security

Here’s what didn’t make it into the Pentagon budget

David Brown · February 9, 2016 11:25 pm

The president has requested $19 billion for cybersecurity funding, an increase of about $5 billion over the current year. Of that, a little over $3 billion would go toward upgrading federal computer systems. (AP file photo/Evan Vucci)

White House uses cybersecurity to bludgeon Republicans on budget

Rudy Takala · February 9, 2016 11:16 pm

WH counts on longshot immigration reform to reduce the deficit

Susan Crabtree · February 9, 2016 11:14 pm

The agency asked for less money but is shifting more focus to clean water and drinking water funds. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Energy and Environment

EPA budget includes $2 billion to update water systems in wake of Flint crisis

Kyle Feldscher · February 9, 2016 11:08 pm

The agency's fiscal 2017 budget request drives up programming funds to reduce the cost of solar and wind energy by 30 percent, while cutting money for coal, oil and natural gas programs by 5 percent said Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Energy budget pumps up renewables at expense of coal

John Siciliano · February 9, 2016 11:08 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the budget inadequate, noting that it came in $17 billion under what the president predicted he would need for fiscal 2017 in last years budget. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

GOP: Pentagon budget ‘inadequate’ to meet threats

Jacqueline Klimas · February 9, 2016 10:12 pm

President Obamas fiscal 2017 budget envisions a mix of old and new ideas for taxes that Republicans are labeling a $3.4 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Breaking down Obama’s new tax proposals

Joseph Lawler · February 9, 2016 6:37 pm