Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO reported that the federal deficit increased through the first quarter of fiscal 2016 to $212 billion. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Deficit rises to $212 billion

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 7:49 pm

McCain said he had hoped to see more offensive capabilities outlined. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

McCain lists 51 ways government wastes taxpayer money

Anna Giaritelli · January 8, 2016 12:11 am

The omnibus bill that extended wind and solar tax credits for five years "bridges the low carbon future ... to the Clean Power Plan" and "ensures that clean energy wins," said Richard Duke, deputy director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. (AP file photo/Charlie Riedel)

Energy and Environment

WH: Congress gave EPA a win in spending bill

John Siciliano · January 7, 2016 6:02 pm

"I want to express the committee's expectation that the Department of Justice will allocate its resources to the enforcement of existing federal law," wrote Republican Rep. John Culberson. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

House appropriations panel to Obama: Don’t even think about funding gun control

Anna Giaritelli · January 5, 2016 12:17 am

"I want to make sure that we have an agenda that we take to the American people that is rooted in our founding principles, this is what conservatives believe, to give the country a very clear choice and that's what we're excited to looking forward to in 2016," House Speaker Paul Ryan said. (AP file photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP isn’t giving up on passing laws in an election year

Susan Ferrechio · January 4, 2016 5:01 am

The debt increased by more than $789 billion in 2014 and by more than $919 billion in 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Feds will ring in 2016 buried in debt of $58,000 per person

Rudy Takala · December 30, 2015 5:01 am

Staff Sgt. David Bellavia, Silver Star recipient.

Washington Secrets

Mele Kalikimaka: Taxpayer’s gift to Obama is $470,000 a day Hawaiian vacation

Paul Bedard · December 29, 2015 11:20 pm

UnitedHealth is just one of the insurers that's considering pulling out of the Obamacare exchanges. (AP file photo)

Obamacare: A never-ending money pit

Sally Pipes · December 29, 2015 5:01 am

The drug that got the most money from Part D was Sovaldi, which the agency paid out $3.1 billion in 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hepatitis C drug the biggest expense for Medicare

Robert King · December 21, 2015 11:10 pm

Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Timothy Massad said that the "failure to provide the CFTC even a modest increase in the fiscal year 2016 budget agreement sends a clear message that meaningful oversight of the derivatives markets, and the very types of products that exacerbated the global financial crisis, is not a priority." (AP file photo/ Evan Vucci)

Regulator: Flat funding means no ‘meaningful’ financial oversight

Joseph Lawler · December 21, 2015 5:26 pm

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan hits President Obama's planned executive action on gun control. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ryan distances himself from spending bill

Dan Friedman · December 20, 2015 5:23 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said "It's now many years later, and the Obama ... campaign never really ended." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell defends ‘big compromise’ with Dems on spending

Pete Kasperowicz · December 20, 2015 3:40 pm