Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Patrick signs $36B state budget, announces vetoes

Bob Salsberg · July 11, 2014 8:01 pm

White House: 2014 budget deficit to drop to $583B

Washington Examiner · July 11, 2014 6:53 pm

FILE - This March 27, 2009, file photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury Department releases federal budget data for June on Friday, July 11, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

US records $71 billion budget surplus in June

Josh Boak · July 11, 2014 6:27 pm

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is nearly 17 points behind Democrat Tom Wolf in the RCP polling average. (AP Photo)

VIDEO: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s pension problem

Steve Doty · July 11, 2014 3:38 pm

There hasn't been a substantive energy vote on the Senate floor since 2007. (iStock Image)

Energy and Environment

Environment bogs down spending bills

Zack Colman · July 11, 2014 2:00 pm

Ohio casino tax revenue short of predictions

Washington Examiner · July 11, 2014 11:21 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is adding the minimum wage to the list of items too urgent to wait until after the November midterm elections. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Faster deportations? A possible border crisis deal

ERICA WERNERALICIA A. CALDWELL · July 10, 2014 11:18 pm

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett fields questions from the media during a news conference Thursday, July 10, 2014, in Harrisburg, Pa. Corbett, who signed state budget documents earlier in the day, is vetoing millions of dollars from the Legislature's budget and urging lawmakers to make a new effort to address public-sector pensions. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Corbett signs budget, takes on lawmakers, pensions

MARC LEVYMARK SCOLFORO · July 10, 2014 10:09 pm

FILE - This April 9, 2014 file photo shows House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House committee took a step Thursday toward keeping highway and transit aid flowing to states just three weeks before transportation programs are forecast to go broke. The Senate was expected to take action on a similar measure later in the day. The Ways and Means Committee approved by a voice vote a bill by its chairman, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., that cobbles together $11 billion in pension tax changes, customs fees and money from a fund to repair leaking underground fuel storage tanks to shore up the federal Highway Trust Fund through May 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House, Senate committees advance highway aid plans

Joan Lowy · July 10, 2014 8:34 pm

FILE - This May 26, 2014 file photo shows Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New Delhi, India. Civilian assistance to Afghanistan was always slated to shrink with America's military footprint, but U.S. aid officials were caught off-guard when Congress, upset by testy relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, slashed civilian aid by 50 percent this year. War-weary lawmakers, content with the level of Afghan aid already in the pipeline, backed the cut, but officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development warn that reducing aid too quickly is risky. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Afghan aid is dropping, but how fast is too fast?

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 7:37 pm

Senate confirms housing chief to run budget office

Andrew Taylor · July 10, 2014 7:28 pm

A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas, in this June 25, 2014 photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Congress signals it will change law to speed up deportations of children

Susan Ferrechio · July 10, 2014 6:47 pm