Tag: Budgets and Deficits

In its fiscal year 2016 budget, the Air Force estimates it would save $4.2 billion by retiring 164 of the A-10. The cuts would remove all A-10 active squadrons and cull 21 assigned to the Air National Guard. (iStock)

National Security

Retiring the A-10 wouldn’t save as much as promised

Tara Copp · February 24, 2015 10:00 am

National Security

GOP uncouples immigration fight from Homeland funding bill

Susan Ferrechio · February 24, 2015 1:01 am

With reforms to No Child Left Behind up for debate, House Republicans are wisely proposing that low-income families be allowed to take a portion of their federal funding to different public schools of their choosing. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Beltway Confidential

Federal K-12 funding should follow the student

Jason Russell · February 23, 2015 6:56 pm

With budget talks just beginning on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are starting to grapple with significant disagreements over whether to reverse billions of dollars in looming mandatory budget cuts known as the sequester. (iStock Photo)

GOP fight coming over spending caps

Susan Ferrechio · February 23, 2015 10:00 am

GOP plans overhaul for Social Security disability

Joseph Lawler · February 23, 2015 10:00 am

Though both houses of Congress are now controlled by Republicans,Â Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio,Â are at a standstill over provisions attached to a Homeland Security spending bill aimed at blocking President Obama's executive actions on immigration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP’s shutdown déja vu

Susan Ferrechio · February 22, 2015 10:00 am

The Pentagon has a safety cushion of $86 billion in cash it could use to fund critical needs if sequestered. (iStock Photo)

National Security

Pentagon keeps cushion against spending caps

Tara Copp · February 22, 2015 10:00 am

From left to right, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick talk about President Obama's immigration executive order at a news conference at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)

Declare victory and act

Linda Chavez · February 20, 2015 9:44 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks in the Pentagon auditorium, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, during a staff all hands meeting. (Washington Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

National Security

Carter talks personnel, budget at first speech of tenure

Tara Copp · February 19, 2015 7:52 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., presides over a hearing on Cuba on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Rubio calls for passage of ‘clean’ Homeland Security funding bill

Susan Ferrechio · February 18, 2015 11:46 pm

Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty images)

Fed official: Set a ‘high bar’ for intervening in credit markets

Joseph Lawler · February 18, 2015 11:20 pm

Beltway Confidential

Former head of Obama’s Solyndra program says Tea Party ‘cost taxpayers 10s of millions’

Timothy P. Carney · February 18, 2015 4:26 pm