Tag: Spending

In this Nov. 18, 2016, photo, the U.S. Capitol dome is seen at sunset on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Still buzzed from $1.3 trillion omnibus, GOP now proposes balanced budget amendment

Philip Wegmann · March 28, 2018 2:25 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 23, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington. "Obamacare" led to health care coverage for some 20 million Americans, including about 4 million Hispanics and 3 million blacks, according to federal statistics. However, its fate is uncertain because of Trumpâs vow to repeal and replace it.

Obama didn’t know healthcare could be so complicated

Washington Examiner · March 28, 2018 4:00 am

In this March 23, 2018, photo, a copy of the $1.3 trillion spending bill is stacked on a table in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. Under President Barack Obama and a GOP-controlled Congress, Capitol Hill Democrats had to scratch and claw for months to get tiny increases for domestic programs, but they got almost everything they wanted under a GOP Congress and President Donald Trump.

Omnibus will ultimately mean $500 billion more in spending over the next decade: Report

Joseph Lawler · March 27, 2018 8:54 pm

Betsy DeVos: How the omnibus spending law makes schools safer

Betsy DeVos · March 26, 2018 7:08 pm

President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, where it was announced the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project, Friday, March 24, 2107, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Trump keeps White House aides guessing with series of surprise moves

Sarah Bedford · March 25, 2018 6:20 pm

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine argued that Donald Trump didn't have enough stamina during Monday night's debate. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Tim Kaine: Trump’s either ‘lying’ or ‘completely delusional’ by claiming Democrats killed DACA deal

Kyle Feldscher · March 25, 2018 2:11 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that President Trump gets stamina from the fact that he has "perfect genes." (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)

Steven Mnuchin tells Congress to give Trump line item veto, which Congress can’t do

Robert King · March 25, 2018 2:03 pm

The budget calls for a $2.6 billion investment in border security, including "funding to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border." (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

Trump: Money in the budget for the wall is a ‘down payment’

Kyle Feldscher · March 25, 2018 12:25 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member of the group, are trying to avoid lawmakers adding money to the resolution as they work on the tax legislation.

Beltway Confidential

Conservatives fear a missed opportunity on funding for the border wall

Al Weaver · March 25, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

National Security

President Trump said ‘f— that’ to aides who warned him about backlash if he vetoed spending bill

Diana Stancy Correll · March 24, 2018 1:28 am

Rush Limbaugh: Watching Trump sign spending bill was like seeing him ‘go back up’ the escalator

Naomi Lim · March 23, 2018 11:02 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks about the Trump Administration's energy policy.

Energy and Environment

Trey Gowdy wants answers from Ryan Zinke on $139,000 door

John Siciliano · March 23, 2018 8:30 pm