Tag: Minusextra

House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers are aiming for an "expansive" infrastructure spending plan in the fiscal 2018 budget in the weeks ahead. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Ryan: GOP planning ‘expansive’ infrastructure budget

Susan Ferrechio · January 24, 2017 4:15 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, has been tasked with writing the GOP tax plan which would make it so that companies are taxed only on sales within the U.S. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP tax writer: ‘Severe consequences’ if Congress scraps border adjustment

Joseph Lawler · January 24, 2017 4:07 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., are considering another round of base realignment and closure. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

McCain, Reed want to talk base closures with Mattis

Jacqueline Klimas · January 24, 2017 4:04 pm

Turmp is expected to make a decision soon on who should replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

Top lawmakers and Trump will huddle on Supreme Court nominee Tuesday

Susan Ferrechio · January 24, 2017 3:54 pm

OMB pick Mick Mulvaney warned Tuesday that the federal government's debt-ridden finances are in an "unsustainable" situation, and said he'd work to tackle the nation's $20 trillion debt. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mulvaney vows to tackle ‘unsustainable’ national debt at OMB

Pete Kasperowicz · January 24, 2017 3:54 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., delayed a vote on the confirmation of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general until Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Feinstein delays Sessions’ vote in name of Women’s March on Washington

Kelly Cohen · January 24, 2017 3:54 pm

President Obama said, "The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama’s Supreme Court win rate is the worst since Zachary Taylor, study says

Ryan Lovelace · January 24, 2017 3:44 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Tuesday that he's never seen Democrats so opposed to a Republican president as they are to Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hatch slams Democrats’ ‘partisan rancor’ toward Trump

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 3:42 pm

Author J.K. Rowling argued Monday night that President Trump’s executive order to reinstate a ban on foreign aid to international groups that provide abortions would put the "poorest women in the world" at risk. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling bashes Trump’s foreign aid plan

Meghana Kurup · January 24, 2017 3:33 pm

National Security

McCain slams OMB pick Mulvaney over votes to cut defense spending

Jacqueline Klimas · January 24, 2017 3:33 pm

The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday approved Ben Carson's nomination to be the next Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Carson, Ross, Chao nominations advance in the Senate

Pete Kasperowicz · January 24, 2017 3:32 pm

The cameras will be off at Foggy Bottom for at least a few more days as the State Department continues to transition from the Obama administration to live under President Trump. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

State Department to resume press briefings next week

Joel Gehrke · January 24, 2017 3:24 pm