Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Energy and Environment

EPA pursues new cost-benefit analysis for regulation that critics fear will undermine climate rules

John Siciliano · May 21, 2019 10:06 pm

McConnell: Bipartisan deal to raise debt ceiling and spending caps as soon as today

Susan Ferrechio · May 21, 2019 7:17 pm

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo shows Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., followed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leaving a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Amash isnât taking back his call for President Trumpâs impeachment. The fourth-term congressman took considerable heat on Monday, May 20, 2019, for tweeting over the weekend that special counsel Robert Muellerâs report outlined obstruction by the president.

Beltway Confidential

Get mad at Justin Amash all you want, but he’s still the biggest fiscal conservative

Jack Hunter · May 21, 2019 6:59 pm

This is one of four of the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" signs as seen Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 that has been rented to The LUV Boutique,a small chain of adult entertainment stores, as seen on the southbound side of Interstate-91 outside of Hartford, Conn.

Beltway Confidential

For infrastructure funding, follow the money on the Coca-Cola highway

Tom Joyce · May 21, 2019 6:51 pm

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, pauses before a news conference as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Close those executive branch slush funds

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2019 2:00 pm

In this March 30, 2019 photo, a tourists take photos of the razor-wire-covered border wall that separates Nogales, Ariz. at left, and Nogales, Mexico on the right.

Wall fight looms again as lawmakers prep for budget talks

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2019 4:05 am

In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, then Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom affirms he no longer opposes California's high-speed rail plan.

Trump delivers Gavin Newsom a high-speed lifeline

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2019 4:00 am

FILE -- In this Tuesday, May 8, 2018 the U.S. Embassador in Germany, Richard Allen Grenell during his akkreditation by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Bellevue palace in Berlin, Germany.

Washington Secrets

Halt: In first, Trump’s ambassador to Germany requests $0 more in budget, cuts spending

Paul Bedard · May 17, 2019 5:00 pm

Soldiers conduct preventive maintenance checks on an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter during training at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, Aug. 3, 2016.

‘Like taking candy from a baby’: Pentagon accuses defense contractor of ‘gouging our taxpayers’

Russ Read · May 17, 2019 12:01 am

Philip Swagel is pictured in a 2006 photo.

Former Bush economist Phillip Swagel to lead Congressional Budget Office

Colin Wilhelm · May 15, 2019 11:10 pm

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games medals are unveiled to mark 100 days away to the 2015 Special Olympics World Games at the LA84 Foundation in Los Angeles Thursday, April 16, 2015.

Trump updates budget proposal with $18M to fund Special Olympics

Diana Stancy Correll · May 13, 2019 11:34 pm

Beltway Confidential

So-called ‘Medicare for all’ gets its 15 minutes of infamy

Sally Pipes · May 13, 2019 12:00 pm