Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Beltway Confidential

Cost of earmarks rising despite congressional ‘moratorium’

Jason Russell · May 13, 2015 1:00 pm

An abandoned building sits under cloudy skies during a rainy day in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

The right medicine for ailing Puerto Rico

James Glassman · May 12, 2015 9:00 am

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas speaks during a news conference. From left: Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Cornyn, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Congress adds to deficit even as balanced budget passes

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2015 9:00 am

The stage at the Export-Import Bank Annual Conference April 24, 2014 in Washington. (Getty Images File)

Beltway Confidential

The silly fake jingoism of Ex-Im defenders

Timothy P. Carney · May 7, 2015 9:26 pm

TurboTax sued by customer who claims leaked info led to fraudulent tax return

LocalLabs News Service · May 7, 2015 3:35 pm

Newly influential Sanders pitches populist bill to break up big banks

Susan Ferrechio · May 6, 2015 6:28 pm

Postal Service mail vehicles sit in a parking lot at a mail distribution center on February 18, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mismanagement cost Postal Service $21 million extra for vehicle maintenance

Ethan Barton · May 6, 2015 4:58 pm

National Security

Gen. Dempsey: ‘This is not a time to be withdrawing from the world’

Tara Copp · May 6, 2015 3:45 pm

"The reason to get this budget done is so that the appropriators can get started," Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi said Thursday on the House floor. (AP Photo)Â

Senate passes budget agreement

Joseph Lawler · May 5, 2015 10:26 pm

A bill to fund military construction and veterans affairs for fiscal 2016 was expected to sail through the House on Wednesday. (iStock)

House will struggle to pass spending bills that adhere to caps

Susan Ferrechio · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt healthcare premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obamacare exchanges are not cheap to build or run

Washington Examiner · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

"After a 50-year war on poverty and trillions of dollars spent, we still have the same poverty rates, 45 million people in poverty," Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and former GOP vice presidential nominee, said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

Ryan: War on Poverty not working

Susan Ferrechio · May 3, 2015 4:41 pm