Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Obama will propose raising the threshold for the cost of healthcare plans affected by the tax. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama to propose narrowing Obamacare ‘Cadillac’ tax

Joseph Lawler · February 4, 2016 12:20 am

GOP lawmaker suggested House Speaker Paul Ryan isn't yet doing enough to change the political culture in Congress.(Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Conservatives push Ryan to abandon budget deal

Joel Gehrke · February 3, 2016 8:29 pm

Because lawmakers can't agree on policy, spending ends up determined in last-minute deals with White House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Budget chief: Congress ‘losing control’ over federal spending

Joseph Lawler · February 3, 2016 7:40 pm

"It remains unconscionable that House Republicans would even bring our country to the point where the Treasury Department was asked to explore options for how to handle a default," Hoyer said. (AP File Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Hoyer denounces ‘outrageous’ GOP debt ceiling accusations

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2016 10:40 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the two issues were the ones discussed with the Obama, "on which we might make progress." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, GOP emerge with very short ‘to do’ list

Susan Ferrechio · February 2, 2016 10:26 pm

The request includes $920 million for cooperative agreements with states to expand access to medication-assisted treatment, which is critical to solving the opioid epidemic that kills 44 Americans a day, officials said. (AP Photo)

Obama pushes big funding increase for opioid fight

Robert King · February 2, 2016 6:22 pm

"The principles are simple: balance, which can take place over multiple years to accommodate economic conditions; emergency spending with supermajority support; and a full decade after ratification to get to balance," Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., wrote in a letter to fellow lawmakers. (AP file photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmaker renews call for balanced budget legislation

Rudy Takala · February 2, 2016 2:46 pm

National Security

Pentagon budget built around Russian, Chinese threats

Jacqueline Klimas · February 2, 2016 1:59 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter previews the fiscal 2017 military budget on Tuesday. (Defense Department)

National Security

Pentagon budget request ‘not about size, but about shape’

Jacqueline Klimas · February 2, 2016 11:32 am

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said earlier in January that the use of reconciliation was still under discussion and that the idea that had the most traction as a candidate for reconciliation was some type of welfare reform along the lines of expanding the successful '90s reform.? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP eyes long-shot plan to repeal Obamacare in 2017

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2016 5:01 am

National debt hits $19 trillion

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2016 9:23 pm

"The initiative aims to bring about a decade's worth of advances in five years, making more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage," a White House news release stated. (AP photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama plans $1 billion for cancer ‘moonshot’

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2016 6:28 pm