Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Beltway Confidential

Government debt on a dangerous track

Jason Russell · January 26, 2015 9:59 pm

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Beltway Confidential

CBO: Obamacare to cost $2 trillion over the next decade

Philip Klein · January 26, 2015 7:59 pm

Deficit to fall this year

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2015 7:16 pm

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Where did the debt go?

Joseph Lawler · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

U.S. Border Patrol agents work in a field near Carrizzo Springs, Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg)

Congress must plot next move on Homeland Security spending

Susan Ferrechio · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

USS Iwo Jima in New York City in 2011. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for USO of Metropolitan New York)

Pentagon struggles with budget cuts

Tara Copp · January 26, 2015 10:00 am

Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, stand to attention while being introduced during a homecoming ceremony in the Natcher Physical Fitness Center on Fort Knox in the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 20, 2013 in Fort Knox, Ky. (Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty images)

National Security

Pentagon bureaucracy grows as troops are cut

Tara Copp · January 25, 2015 10:00 am

Dr. Ben Carson speaks during the Freedom Summit, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Ben Carson wants immigration laws based on ‘common sense’

Sarah Bedford · January 24, 2015 6:44 pm

These 2014 file photos show, from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. (AP Photo, File)

Boehner, McConnell: Obama tax hikes ‘dead’ on arrival

Sarah Bedford · January 24, 2015 3:13 pm

K Street giant Hogan Lovells has added Ken Choe, formerly a top-ranking lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services, as a partner. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Great Healthcare Cashout: Ken Choe, legal pointman on Obamacare, goes to K Street

Timothy P. Carney · January 23, 2015 10:19 pm

Standard & Poor’s settles with feds, two states for $80 million

Mark Payne · January 23, 2015 6:41 pm

Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jason Furman speaks about the economy during the White House daily news briefing in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama adviser defends proposal to tax college savings plans

Joseph Lawler · January 23, 2015 5:01 pm