Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Soldiers with Florida National Guard's Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, load food and water for the public at an aid distribution point in the wake of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Disaster aid spending package keeps growing as parties bicker over funding deal

Susan Ferrechio · May 10, 2019 4:38 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2019-2020 state budget during a news conference Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom, a Democrat, has proposed a $213.5 billion a spending plan.

Gavin Newsom triples funding to combat gun violence in updated Calif. budget

Diana Stancy Correll · May 9, 2019 11:32 pm

In this June 5, 2014 photo, a Border Patrol agent uses a headset and computer to conduct a long distance interview by video with a person arrested crossing the border in Texas, from a facility in San Diego. Hit with a dramatic increase of Central Americans crossing in South Texas, the Border Patrol is relieving staffing woes by enlisting agents in less busy sectors to process arrests through video interviews.

Here’s how US border officials want to spend $20.8B in 2020

Anna Giaritelli · May 9, 2019 9:35 pm

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.

House Republicans to call on Pelosi to keep to spending limits

Naomi Lim · May 7, 2019 6:47 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

CBO spells danger for House-sponsored ‘Medicare for all’

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 3, 2019 6:49 pm

Finance and Economy

Federal deficit to rise to $900 billion for 2019, highest since 2012: CBO

Colin Wilhelm · May 2, 2019 9:36 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., walks to her car after she visited with supporters at Papa Keno's in the Drake neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Hate campaign spending? Gillibrand’s ‘democracy dollars’ would put it on steroids

Luke Wachob · May 1, 2019 9:40 pm

Government agents stand guard alongside suspects taken into custody during an immigration sting at Corso's Flower and Garden Center, Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in Castalia, Ohio. The operation is one of the largest against employers in recent years on allegations of violating immigration laws.

White House seeks $4.5 billion in emergency funding to cope with migration surge

Rob Crilly · May 1, 2019 4:51 pm

This photo made on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Zelienople, Pa., shows 1040 tax forms instructions printed from the Internal Revenue Service web page that are used for 2018 U.S. federal tax returns.

Washington Secrets

America’s tax bill: $5.2T, $14,998 per person

Paul Bedard · May 1, 2019 4:06 pm

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney speaks during an interview with the Washington Examiner, Thursday, June 1, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Et tu, Mick Mulvaney?

Philip Klein · May 1, 2019 2:48 pm

Budget office warns of longer waits, less access under Medicare for All Act

Kimberly Leonard · May 1, 2019 2:33 pm

Democrats' history on immigration is one of empty rhetoric and base deception. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

House spending bill lets Congress hire ‘Dreamers’

Susan Ferrechio · April 30, 2019 9:12 pm