Tag: Spending

While Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt requires a full-time security detail to protect him from environmental terrorists, the degree and cost of his security arrangements are significantly higher than those of his predecessors. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is playing taxpayers and Trump

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 9:30 pm

U.S. national debt tracker.

National debt jumps $175 billion after debt ceiling suspended

Pete Kasperowicz · February 12, 2018 9:21 pm

The proposal is for families to receive some of their benefits "in the form of a USDA Foods package" that would include cereal, pasta, peanut butter, beans, meat, and canned fruit. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump administration proposes sending food directly to low-income families

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 9:04 pm

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently headed by acting director Mick Mulvaney — the same person who, in his other role as director of the Office of Management and Budget, called for the cuts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mick Mulvaney proposes to gut CFPB he currently leads

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 8:31 pm

New leases for energy development on onshore and offshore federal lands would pay for an $18 billion fund for the parks, which would be set up by Congress. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Energy and Environment

Interior budget seeks to repair national parks using energy leasing revenue

Josh Siegel · February 12, 2018 8:04 pm

"The budget is a statement of our values, but the president's brutal collection of broken promises and staggering cuts shows he does not value the future of seniors, children and working families," Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi: Trump budget would ‘compound the cruelty’ of GOP tax bill

Al Weaver · February 12, 2018 7:16 pm

The destroyer USS Truxtun sits in dry dock at the General Dynamics shipyard facility on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Va. General Dynamics and rival contractors stand to benefit from increased U.S. military spending.

Weapons maker General Dynamics expands tech lineup with $9.6 billion CSRA deal

James Langford · February 12, 2018 7:02 pm

Club for Growth is releasing a short ad, running digitally and on local television, criticizing Rep. Markwayne Mullin on fiscal issues and on abandoning a self-imposed term limits pledge. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Club for Growth targeting Rep. Markwayne Mullin

David M. Drucker · February 12, 2018 6:57 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Trump proposal "falls short," of the Democratic plan to expand high-speed internet access and improve roads and bridges as well as modernize the electric grid "while creating millions of good-paying, middle-class jobs." (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Chuck Schumer: Infrastructure proposal would lead to ‘Trump tolls’

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 6:40 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said President Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget "lays out a thoughtful, detailed, and responsible blueprint for achieving our shared agenda." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan praises Trump’s ‘thoughtful’ budget and infrastructure plan

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 6:09 pm

The next fight over the tax credit will more than likely come in the farm bill. (Micah Walter/Bloomberg News)

Beltway Confidential

Biofuel boom: Budget deal gives away $2.6 billion to biodiesel industry

Philip Wegmann · February 12, 2018 6:08 pm

The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development would receive a combined $39.3 billion in fiscal year 2019 under the White House proposal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Trump’s 2019 budget plan slashes diplomatic spending

Joel Gehrke · February 12, 2018 5:59 pm