Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Nancy Sullivan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a tour of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama presses Congress on Ebola funding

Brian Hughes · December 2, 2014 11:04 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the House plan does nothing to stop Obama's executive action, which would allow more than 4 million people now living here illegally to apply for work permits and eventually obtain Social Security and Medicare benefits. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty images)

Sessions denounces House GOP plan to fund government

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 10:15 pm

German soldiers hoisting the German army flag, Sept. 19, 1939 in front of the City Hall of Gdynia, Poland, the seat of the civil administration. (AP Photo)

House votes to end benefits for Nazis

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 9:15 pm

"It's kind of unfortunate that they are talking about not doing Homeland Security," Reid told reporters on Tuesday. "But, that's the way it is." (Washington Examiner File Photo/Graeme Jennings)

Reid backs House funding plan

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 9:03 pm

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House will vote on short-term tax cut deal Wednesday

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 8:19 pm

Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks with Washington Examiner opinion editor Philip Klein on Capitol Hill, Thursday, September 18th, 2014. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Ryan says Republicans will work on business tax reform

Joseph Lawler · December 2, 2014 5:52 pm

The House would vote on a measure, authored by Ted Yoho, R-Fla., that would declare the president does not have the authority to implement his plan to halt deportations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

GOP weighs two-part plan to fund government, block Obama move on deportations

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 4:32 pm

Only 615 feds have been laid off since 2010 in RIFs -- "Reductions in Force" -- not including 1,350 from the military.Â (iStock Photo)

Despite dark sequester predictions, most federal agencies are getting bigger

Luke Rosiak · December 2, 2014 3:36 pm

A zombie hand reaches out of the ground at night in a graveyard.

Reid’s zombie Senate should not set federal spending priorities

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2014 10:00 am

U.S. Border Patrol agents detain immigrants in brushland some 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Brooks County on July 23, 2014 near Falfurrias, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images)

Conservatives’ bill would block Obama’s deportation directive

Susan Ferrechio · December 1, 2014 11:37 pm

Tax credit fight gives the GOP an opportunity for populism

Timothy P. Carney · November 28, 2014 3:17 pm

Black Friday shoppers are looking forward to cheap deals on gifts this week, but sales taxes will still apply in the 47 states that levy them. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Where taxes hit Black Friday shoppers hardest

Jason Russell · November 28, 2014 10:00 am