Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Beltway Confidential

Jeb Bush is a tax-cutter, but won’t pledge to it

Jason Russell · December 17, 2014 7:48 pm

Taxpayer advocacy nonprofit’s video pushes Postal Service to focus on mail

Sarah Bedford · December 17, 2014 6:47 pm

Inflation fell sharply in November as the price of gas fell the most it has since late 2008. (iStock Photo)

Gas prices send inflation plummeting

Joseph Lawler · December 17, 2014 2:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Did Ted Cruz really bungle the lame-duck session for Republicans?

Byron York · December 17, 2014 1:04 pm

HHS failed to list $1.4 million between the four conferences that the IG reviewed for its report. The agency reported spending $15.8 million for those conferences on its website as required by new Office of Management and Budget rules. (iStock Photo)

Federal department’s CFO says accurate spending reports won’t help taxpayers

Sarah Bedford · December 17, 2014 10:00 am

Barney Frank talks with Elizabeth Warren during a hearing on Capitol Hill on July 22, 2009 in Washington. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty images)

Barney Frank: Warren a force to be reckoned with

Joseph Lawler · December 16, 2014 11:30 pm

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The true story of the financial deregulation provision in the cromnibus

Timothy P. Carney · December 16, 2014 10:00 pm

Unions typically fight reductions in benefits, but the bill is a grudging concession to economic realities. (iStock Photo)

Unusual victory for unions: Pension reform

Sean Higgins · December 16, 2014 8:46 pm

Newport News Shipbuilding workers prepare for the christening of the Navy's newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at the shipyard in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

National Security

Navy billions over budget on unfinished Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier

Sarah Bedford · December 16, 2014 7:51 pm

VIDEO: Rick Santorum blames Republicans’ fear of media for Cromnibus passage

Steve Doty · December 16, 2014 3:17 pm

The spending bill won't allow the Pentagon to retire older tech like the A-10 fighter jet. (AP/Brian Branch-Price)

Spending bill doesn’t solve Pentagon’s funding problem

Charles Hoskinson · December 16, 2014 10:00 am

GOP freshmen Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. (Getty images/Justin Sullivan)

Tom Cotton, Tim Scott to join Senate Banking Committee

Joseph Lawler · December 15, 2014 10:55 pm