Tag: Spending

The budget message from President Trump said the budget reflects the administration's "serious and ongoing commitment to fully secure our border, take the fight to criminal gangs like MS-13, and make our immigration system work for Americans." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Justice Department would see small cut under Trump’s budget plan

Kelly Cohen · February 12, 2018 5:48 pm

The budget doesn't propose an increase in base funding, but it would receive nearly $15 billion to enforce tax collections. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Trump’s budget calls for $15 billion for IRS enforcement, aiming to help tax law

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 5:46 pm

House budget panel critical of Trump for not proposing a balanced budget

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 5:40 pm

President Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget is on display after arriving on Capitol Hill Monday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s 2019 budget: Read it in full

Washington Examiner Staff · February 12, 2018 5:17 pm

The Navy would increase by 7,500 sailors as it struggles to meet demands on its crews and ships in the Western Pacific and around the world. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

National Security

Pentagon budget calls for 10 new Navy ships and 15,600 more troops

Travis J. Tritten · February 12, 2018 5:00 pm

The White House budget, written by budget director Mick Mulvaney, is a request to Congress regarding spending and tax policy, and a statement of Trump's priorities. It is not law or legislation, and is certain to be largely ignored by Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House rolls out Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget: Here’s what’s in it

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 4:30 pm

Trump's plan, according to administration officials, would seek to facilitate more than $1.5 trillion in investments for projects such as road and bridge construction, waterway improvements and rural development by spending $200 billion in taxpayer money to jump-start the work. (Examiner file)

New White House $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan would fast-track projects, ’empower’ states

Sarah Bedford · February 12, 2018 3:46 pm

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said that he worries Congress agreed to bust through budget caps, and spend at a level that was far beyond what Democrats were demanding. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP lawmaker: Spending deal is a ‘debt junkie’s dream’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 12, 2018 2:16 pm

Freedom of Information Act records obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project show Scott Pruitt has taken more trips at higher costs than his predecessors and been less transparent about his schedule. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

EPA’s Scott Pruitt racked up $90K in travel costs in early June: Report

Anna Giaritelli · February 12, 2018 1:27 pm

Beltway Confidential

Can the ‘Supercommittee II’ fix Congress’ dysfunction?

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

FILE - In this July 9, 2017 file photo, Amtrak workers continue ongoing infrastructure renewal work beneath Penn Station in New York. President Donald Trump on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, will unveil his long-awaited infrastructure plan, a $1.5 billion proposal that fulfills a number of campaign goals, but relies heavily on state and local governments to produce much of the funding.
The administration's plan is centered on using $200 billion in federal money to leverage local and state tax dollars to fix America's infrastructure, such as roads, highways, ports and airports. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

On infrastructure, Trump administration seeks to avoid Obama stimulus trap

W. James Antle III · February 12, 2018 2:00 am

File- This Jan. 22, 2018, file photo shows Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney talking during a television interview outside the White House in Washington. Mulvaney, the former tea party congressman who runs the White House budget office, said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, that Trump's new budget, if implemented, would tame the deficit over time, though unlike last year's submission, it wouldn't promise to balance the federal ledger eventually. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump’s budget will propose cutting $3 trillion, set goal of reducing the debt rather than balancing the budget

Joseph Lawler, Kyle Feldscher · February 12, 2018 2:00 am