Tag: Spending

NIH budget cuts will damage ‘The American System’

joe-black, sandip-shah · August 10, 2017 4:01 am

When we make our arguments about the costs and benefits of our preferred policies, we should at least be willing to explain how and why our policies would work. (Twitter)

Would it really kill the CBO to show its work?

Ross Marchand · August 9, 2017 4:01 am

The committee approved both nominees, who were both strongly opposed by Democrats, on party lines. They now go before the full Senate for a vote. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Rep. Mark Walker: A clean debt ceiling is dirty politics

Rep. Mark Walker · August 7, 2017 9:33 pm

The bigger the government, the more the playing field is tilted to the big guys. (iStock by Getty Images)

To help the American Dream, get out of the way

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2017 9:48 pm

President Trump's budget says the entire Economic Development Administration should be scrapped, saving $220 million next year. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s Commerce Department celebrates ‘American Dream Week’ by touting subsidy agency Trump budget would kill

Timothy P. Carney · August 4, 2017 12:43 pm

The Canadian government decided to leave its provinces in charge of administering healthcare, while simultaneously allowing them to keep a greater percentage of income tax revenues to finance costs. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)

With Medicaid block grants, Canada (yes, that’s right) offers a useful model

Ross Marchand · August 1, 2017 4:01 am

To his credit, President Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to begin the process of undoing former President Back Obama's abuses regarding the declaration of national monuments to appease environmentalists. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

Energy and Environment

GOP preserves Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste storage site

John Siciliano · July 27, 2017 3:54 am

"For that reason, and for the draconian cuts to clean energy, I must urge my colleagues to oppose the energy and water portion of this spending package," Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio said.

Energy and Environment

Democrats urged to vote no on spending bill over clean energy cuts

John Siciliano · July 26, 2017 10:06 pm

Democrats are offering at least nine amendments in a bid to raise spending levels for the Energy Department's Office of Energy and Renewable Energy, as well as individual programs to support electric vehicles and alternative fuels. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Energy and Environment

House Democrats push clean energy in spending package

John Siciliano · July 26, 2017 6:21 pm

Many veterans groups who opposed it were quick to point out that the new spending was being partially paid for by veterans themselves, through a fee on VA mortgages that veterans would keep paying through 2027, instead of 2024.

Beltway Confidential

Congress and its $2 billion management failure

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2017 2:00 pm

The Senate is advancing the healthcare bill through reconciliation, which requires only a simple majority of votes for passage but also has strict rules attached to it, including that changes to law can apply only to budget items, revenue, and spending. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Parliamentarian rules health bill’s Planned Parenthood defunding, 6-month waiting period don’t meet 51-vote requirement

Kimberly Leonard · July 21, 2017 11:06 pm

The measure would have to pass entirely with GOP support because Democrats are unlikely to vote for the bill, which will include provisions and spending cuts they oppose. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House could vote on massive 2018 spending bill before August recess

Susan Ferrechio · July 18, 2017 4:28 pm