Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Beltway Confidential

Stimulus would only rescue wealthy people and insurance companies

Sally Pipes · March 5, 2021 11:16 am

Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Senate Transportation subcommittee chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listen during a Senate Transportation subcommittee on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA's delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves.

Ted Cruz pitches federal scholarships for children whose schools are closed

David M. Drucker · March 4, 2021 7:59 pm

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., questions Attorney General nominee William Barr as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.

GOP senator calls $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending bill an ‘orgy of pork’

Haley Victory Smith · March 4, 2021 5:41 pm

Blank stimulus checks are seen on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The first batch of rebate payments started hitting bank accounts last week through direct deposits. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials are visiting government check printing centers around the country on Thursday for events highlighting the fact that millions of rebate checks are in the mail.

Democrats tighten stimulus check limits in bid to smooth passage of $1.9 trillion spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 3, 2021 4:52 pm

‘Nothing good happens after midnight’: DC reacts to $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending bill

Zach Halaschak · February 27, 2021 5:05 pm

House passes $1.9 trillion coronavirus spending bill with minimum wage hike

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2021 7:15 am

Beltway Confidential

Can Republicans and Democrats finally address the national debt?

Jonathan Bydlak · February 26, 2021 11:00 am

House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth, D-Ky., heads to meet with fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.

Beltway Confidential

There go the Democrats with another $1 trillion of your money

Hugo Gurdon · February 24, 2021 9:23 pm

Neera Tanden, president and chief executive officer of Center for American Progress, speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The conference is a unique setting that convenes individuals with the capital, power and influence to move the world forward meet face-to-face with those whose expertise and creativity are reinventing industry, philanthropy and media.

Neera Tanden says she benefited from government programs — but also pushed cuts to entitlements

Katherine Doyle · February 23, 2021 7:29 pm

President Joe Biden tours a Pfizer manufacturing site, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Portage, Mich.

Beltway Confidential

The problem with ‘doing something’

Grayson Quay · February 22, 2021 1:00 pm

Former Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, speaks at a North Little Rock, Ark., news conference Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, as he endorses U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, in the race for U.S. Senate.

Beltway Confidential

Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton just abandoned fiscal conservatism

Brad Polumbo · February 20, 2021 11:00 am

Former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said Thursday that it was normal procedure for Congress to pass technical fixes to big bills. (AP File/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Earmarks benefit lawmakers more than localities

Timothy P. Carney · February 19, 2021 5:14 pm