Tag: Fiscal Policy

Which side is winning the shutdown war?

Susan Crabtree · September 14, 2015 4:01 am

A pensioner reads a newspaper on September 8, 2014 in Walsall, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Social Security disability program to go bust in 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 5:43 pm

"We can't wait until this fall," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "This matter has to be resolved now." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Dems demand budget summit with GOP

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

As the Cato Institute put it: "George Pataki started out as a tax-cutting, small-government governor. He ended up as a big spender seemingly hell-bent on overturning anything good he had done in his first term." (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Pataki candidacy revives media talk of the mythical ‘social moderate/fiscal conservative’

Timothy P. Carney · May 29, 2015 3:04 pm

The $500 billion threshold would leave out regional banks like SunTrust, which has about $190 billion in assets, according to Federal Reserve data. (Getty)

Fight looms over how big a bank is

Joseph Lawler · May 16, 2015 9:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Cost of earmarks rising despite congressional ‘moratorium’

Jason Russell · May 13, 2015 1:00 pm

"This announcement is a very big deal," White House adviser Brian Deese told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo)Â

Obama adviser to GOP: Cut a deal to avoid an unwinnable government shutdown

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2015 3:41 pm

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Senate Republicans introduce 10-year balanced-budget plan

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2015 6:30 pm

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew attends a joint press conference with Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Timer set on debt ceiling showdown

Joseph Lawler · March 14, 2015 9:00 am

White House budget director Shaun Donovan said Thursday that he is optimistic about reaching a deal on lifting caps on government spending after testifying on President Obama's budget before the Republican-led Congress this week. (Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor)

White House budget director: There’s ‘real potential’ for a sequestration deal

Joseph Lawler · February 5, 2015 4:43 pm

President Obama waves after delivering remarks at the Department of Homeland Security on his FY2016 budget proposal on Monday. (AP)

Obama’s budget sets stage for Hillary run

Susan Crabtree · February 3, 2015 10:00 am

"There are a couple of things where I hope we can find common ground," Rep. Chris Van Hollen told CNBC on Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Van Hollen: ‘Common ground’ possible between Obama, GOP on budget

Sean Lengell · February 2, 2015 5:46 pm