Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Obama’s ‘runaway spending habit’ blasted by GOP

Joseph Lawler · March 21, 2015 10:00 am

"So you know, I'd like nothing better than to break open that Abandoned Mine Lands fund of money ... and get at it for the purposes that we're talking about. But it's just been impossible so far," said Rep. Rogers. (AP File Photo)

Beyond budget plan, lawmakers aim to eliminate sequester

Susan Ferrechio · March 21, 2015 9:00 am

The state agency came up with "good cause" to continue funneling money to providers suspected of fraud. (iStock Photo)

Wealthy would pay 15 percent more in Medicare ‘doc fix’

Robert King · March 20, 2015 9:53 pm

The tax would raise an estimated $12 million in tax revenue, far short of the $190 million budget deficit the state government needs to close. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

Democratic governor proposes ‘Taylor Swift tax’

Jason Russell · March 20, 2015 8:40 pm

The federal government recovered about $1 billion less in healthcare fraud and waste investigations in 2014 compared to the year before. (iStock Photo)

Sequestration hinders healthcare abuse and fraud settlements

Robert King · March 20, 2015 3:53 pm

"This announcement is a very big deal," White House adviser Brian Deese told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo)Â

Obama adviser to GOP: Cut a deal to avoid an unwinnable government shutdown

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2015 3:41 pm

Repeal of the death tax would create a small, but significant, economic boost. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

How the death tax hurts the living

Jason Russell · March 20, 2015 9:00 am

GOP lawmakers face test on budget

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2015 9:00 am

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., walk through a corridor at the Capitol following a closed-door meeting in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republican budget leads from behind Obama on Medicare

Philip Klein · March 19, 2015 11:58 pm

Ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., confers with congressional staff members at a Senate Budget Committee meeting on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, March 19. 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Senate committee sends budget to Senate floor

Susan Ferrechio · March 19, 2015 10:07 pm

Graham said of the added spending, "it's not my goal to increase spending, it's my goal to increase the ability to defend America overall." (Getty)

National Security

Senate committee approves wartime spending account increase to $96 billion

Tara Copp · March 19, 2015 8:53 pm

"There is overwhelming support in our conference for providing additional resources to protect our national security," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Lure of Obamacare repeal may help pass House budget

Susan Ferrechio · March 19, 2015 6:54 pm