Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Many liberalsÂ have indicated fierce opposition to significant changes to new financial rules. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats on ‘high alert’ for GOP deregulation in funding bills

Joseph Lawler · September 16, 2015 6:26 pm

There's the estimated $80 billion a year the U.S. spends on incarceration at all levels.Â (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

New study measures familial costs of mass incarceration

Daniel Allott · September 16, 2015 6:07 pm

President Obama speaks to business leaders at the quarterly meeting of the Business Roundtable in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, to renew his calls for increased spending in infrastructure, education and scientific research. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama calls on executives to lobby GOP against shutdown

Joseph Lawler · September 16, 2015 5:26 pm

Obama to Trump: America is great right now

Joseph Lawler · September 16, 2015 4:49 pm

States will use the money to develop energy plans that increase energy reliability and efficiency, bring renewable energy into the electrical grid, involve economic development and include enhanced environmental policies. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Energy and Environment

Energy Dept. hands out $5 million to 11 states

Kyle Feldscher · September 15, 2015 9:40 pm

House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, smiles as he speaks the committee's ranking member Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., center, and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House panel to work on permanent tax breaks

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2015 9:05 pm

Insurer is the third to close in a week and the seventh of 23 taxpayer-funded startups to shut. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Killing Obamacare mandate would save $300b

Robert King · September 15, 2015 8:22 pm

Obama to warn against shutdown at business lobby

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2015 6:19 pm

Sanders plans to increase federal spending by one-third

Ariel Cohen · September 15, 2015 5:36 pm

PresidentÂ Obama pointed to automatic payments into retirement accounts and streamlining the application process for federal financial aid for college as examples of behavioral science insights helping Americans get ahead.Â (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama orders federal agencies to hire psychologists

Nicole Duran · September 15, 2015 4:46 pm

U.S. Marshalls guard the area outside of the federal U.S. District Court in Washington Saturday, June 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

National Security

The State Department’s billion-dollar boondoggle

Washington Examiner · September 14, 2015 4:02 am

Which side is winning the shutdown war?

Susan Crabtree · September 14, 2015 4:01 am