Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Trump appears at an event in Ohio.

Trump’s Ohio visit puts a spotlight on government and Pentagon waste

Washington Examiner · March 21, 2019 12:00 am

Beto O'Rourke makes a speech.

Beltway Confidential

Uh oh: Beto O’Rourke caught talking sensibly about federal debt, reforming Social Security back in 2012

Philip Klein · March 19, 2019 8:54 pm

Luke Thomas and Air Force Tech Sgt. Vanessa Vidaurre look at a flooded portion of Offutt Air Force Base, Sunday, March 17, 2019, in Bellevue, Neb.

Beltway Confidential

The problem with robbing the military budget for the wall? Just look at the flooded airbase in Nebraska

Erin Dunne · March 19, 2019 4:21 pm

A member of the media, right, gets their temperature taken by member of the White House physicians office, over concerns about the coronavirus outside the James Brady Briefing Room at the White House, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Disappointing the budget hawks

Steven Nelson · March 15, 2019 4:00 am

A woman and her children, who left the besieged Islamic State-held village of Baghouz, Syria, scramble over a rocky hillside to be checked by U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces Thursday.

US pledges almost $400M in Syria aid

Joel Gehrke · March 14, 2019 6:06 pm

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said a move by the administration to expand the nuclear arsenal would feed an international arms race, increase the possibility of nuclear war, and add unknown cost to the "completely unrealistic" $1.2 trillion price tag for modernizing existing weapons. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

House Armed Services chairman says ‘No’ to Trump on border wall, Space Force, and skirting budget caps

Jamie McIntyre · March 13, 2019 4:29 pm

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer departs a news conference.

Democrats to push for equal funding boost for defense, domestic spending

Susan Ferrechio · March 12, 2019 4:52 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on human trafficking in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, in Washington.

Trump budget calls for subjecting Dodd-Frank regulatory offices to congressional appropriations

Colin Wilhelm · March 12, 2019 2:16 am

Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Republicans brush off Trump budget request

Susan Ferrechio · March 12, 2019 12:12 am

President Trump speaks during a signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington.

How Trump would cut Medicare by $818B in a decade

Kimberly Leonard · March 11, 2019 8:05 pm

Audience members listen as President Donald Trump speaks about American missile defense doctrine, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at the Pentagon.

National Security

Trump’s budget includes 3.1 percent pay raise for military, nothing for the 744,000 civilians who work alongside them

Jamie McIntyre · March 11, 2019 7:12 pm

In this March 6, 2019, photo, President Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

On entitlement reform, Trump has morality on his side

Tom Rogan · March 11, 2019 6:58 pm