Tag: Spending

Trump touts border wall, military funding in omnibus bill despite ‘Dem giveaways’

Diana Stancy Correll · March 22, 2018 3:53 am

President Donald Trump walks down the steps of the Capitol building after a luncheon with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Thursday, March 15, 2018, in Washington. From left, Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Varadkar, Trump, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Vice President Mike Pence.

Money to fight opioids, superbugs, gun violence included in spending deal

Robert King, Kimberly Leonard · March 22, 2018 2:20 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable talks on sanctuary cities with law enforcement officers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Congress’ spending deal rejects Trump’s proposed EPA, energy cuts

Josh Siegel · March 22, 2018 2:11 am

Spending bill would make all of Congress’ research available to the public for free

Joseph Lawler · March 22, 2018 2:10 am

A helicopter makes a water drop on a brush fire that broke out near Temescal Ridge Trail in the vicinity of Skull Rock in a remote section of Topanga State Park in the hills above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles Wednesday evening, Feb. 21, 2018. No structures are threatened and no evacuations have been called for.

Energy and Environment

Congress reaches long-sought deal to fund wildfire prevention as part of massive spending bill

Josh Siegel · March 22, 2018 2:10 am

Beltway Confidential

Deficit hawks rip $1.3T spending bill: ‘When will we learn?’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 22, 2018 2:09 am

House votes to boost access to experimental drugs for the terminally ill

Robert King · March 22, 2018 1:48 am

Opioid battle gets $4 billion boost in spending bill

Kimberly Leonard · March 22, 2018 1:19 am

The Capitol is seen before dawn Wednesday after a night of negotiating on the government spending bill, in Washington, March 21, 2018. Talks over a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill are almost complete as the White House and Capitol Hill Democrats ironed out deals on a first round of funding for President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Obamacare bills not included in spending package

Robert King · March 22, 2018 12:57 am

Congress’ regular spending fiasco

Washington Examiner · March 22, 2018 12:00 am

Law on gun violence research faces makeover in spending bill

Kimberly Leonard · March 21, 2018 10:07 pm

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said Monday night that Donald Trump's plan to deport 11 million illegal aliens is a "sick, hateful fantasy." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Luis Gutierrez: Latinos and immigrants ‘got run over’ by the omnibus

Laura Barrón-López · March 21, 2018 8:30 pm