Tag: Spending

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said former HHS Secretary Tom Price is a "good man," a "superb secretary" following his resignation Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Paul Ryan: Tom Price a ‘good man’ despite private flights

Al Weaver · September 29, 2017 9:22 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned from the Trump administration in the wake of a scandal involving his use of charter planes. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Read Tom Price’s resignation letter to Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · September 29, 2017 9:21 pm

Tom Price resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary on Friday amid controversy over his private jet travels. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Tom Price was a man who couldn’t be trusted

Timothy P. Carney · September 29, 2017 9:03 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday said that for most of his flights, "I fly coach." (AP Photo/Fred Vuich)

Energy and Environment

Ryan Zinke: ‘I fly coach,’ but will use chartered flights when needed

John Siciliano · September 29, 2017 4:44 pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency just approved the city's request for a $3 million grant to build the Civic Center Commons park. As 3.4 million Puerto Ricans (like those pictured above) struggle to find safe drinking water, FEMA announced on Friday that they'd help turn a parking lot in downtown Cheyenne, Wyo. into a drainage pond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Beltway Confidential

Half of Puerto Rico is without safe drinking water and FEMA just spent $3 million on a park in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Philip Wegmann · September 28, 2017 6:51 pm

House Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit senior federal officials from using taxpayer dollars to travel on private planes, following reports at least three of President Trump's Cabinet officials used private or government aircraft for official business. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats take aim at Trump with bill banning use of private planes

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 6:05 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price avoided questions about his travel from reporters on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tom Price: ‘We’ve still got the confidence of the president’

Kimberly Leonard · September 28, 2017 3:05 pm

Senate Democrats are demanding information from HHS Secretary Tom Price about his use of private planes for official government travel. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Senate Democrats demand answers on Tom Price’s use of private jets

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 2:02 pm

Ramazzini's transparency and findings have been questioned. (iStock by Getty Images)

House GOP demands data on funding for Italian cancer research agency

Todd Shepherd · September 27, 2017 8:13 pm

Wildfires that have blackened more than thousands of square miles across the American West have also ignited calls for thinning of forests that have become so choked with trees that they're at "powder keg levels." (Genna Martin /seattlepi.com via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

‘There will be fire’: Congress fights over how to fund, respond to wildfires

Josh Siegel · September 27, 2017 7:52 pm

The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release a report that will detail changes to the Obamacare overhaul bill advanced by Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CBO to release score Monday for Graham-Cassidy Obamacare overhaul bill

Kimberly Leonard · September 25, 2017 3:57 pm

Gates is now in the process of lobbying Congress to reinstate the money, particularly global health funding, which was cut by about a quarter to $6.5 billion for 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Bill Gates ‘disappointed’ by Trump slashing global health funding by a quarter

Naomi Lim · September 24, 2017 8:48 pm