Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Biden asks Congress for $6.4 billion to relocate Afghan refugees

Christian Datoc · September 7, 2021 6:48 pm

Walmart associate Luis Gutierrez, center, checks out a customer's items at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston.

The FairTax’s simpler approach benefits everyone

Rep. Buddy Carter · September 7, 2021 4:00 am

White House plays nice with Manchin despite his calls for ‘strategic pause’ on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending push

Naomi Lim · September 3, 2021 7:22 pm

"Unfairly traded softwood lumber from Canada has for decades hurt mill towns and American millworkers in Oregon and across the country," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Democratic senators eye range of tax hikes to pay for $3.5 trillion spending package

Zach Halaschak · September 3, 2021 5:05 pm

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a rally in Des Moines, Iowa.

His foreign policy in shambles, Biden’s domestic agenda falling apart too

Conn Carroll · September 2, 2021 8:20 pm

The U.S. military is currently planning to scrap all limits on placing women in combat roles (the current limits do not keep women totally out of combat). (AP file photo/Mel Evans)

Defense budget includes amendment that would require women to register for draft

Mike Brest · September 2, 2021 6:12 pm

This photo shows the Capitol Dome at the top of Capitol Hill in Washington.

House Democrats join Republicans to increase defense budget

Mike Brest · September 1, 2021 8:12 pm

If we soak the rich, will everyone get wet?

Stephen Moore · August 27, 2021 3:00 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to the media at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2019.

Pelosi prescription drug bill faces centrist resistance

David Hogberg · August 26, 2021 10:04 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House will vote Thursday on a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general intensified.

Pelosi signals she won’t bend to outnumbered centrists in spending fight

Susan Ferrechio · August 14, 2021 10:30 am

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

Silence from congressional liberals as Democrats move toward SALT tax cut for wealthy

Zach Halaschak · August 13, 2021 7:10 pm

Howard Dean: Ron DeSantis is ‘an embarrassment to every governor’

Jake Dima · August 13, 2021 1:18 pm