Tag: Spending

The agency's goal "is to ensure a new chemicals program that is both protective of human health and the environment, while also being supportive of bringing new chemicals to market," said Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Energy and Environment

House’s EPA spending bill doesn’t agree with Trump cuts but approves layoffs

John Siciliano · July 11, 2017 9:51 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Republicans are shooting for a vote to raise the debt ceiling before the start of the shortened August recess. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Mitch McConnell: Senate shooting for debt ceiling hike before August break

Pete Kasperowicz · July 11, 2017 6:48 pm

President Trump meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at the G20 summit in Hamburg. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says Mexico ‘absolutely’ should pay for border wall after meeting Pena Nieto

Sarah Bedford · July 7, 2017 1:11 pm

Chris Christie's beach outing was immortalized — for a brief time — in sand. (Dave Bobal/Image courtesy Twitter)

Artists recreate Chris Christie’s beach outing in sand sculpture

Melissa Quinn · July 5, 2017 3:06 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, uses the beach with his family and friends at the governor's summer house at Island Beach State Park in New Jersey. Beaches and parks reopened for the Fourth of July holiday after the state reached a budget deal (Andrew Mills/NJ Advance Media via AP)

Christie reopens New Jersey beaches, doesn’t apologize

Travis J. Tritten · July 4, 2017 4:36 pm

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said it is "beyond words" that Gov. Chris Christie is spending the Fourth of July weekend sitting on a New Jersey beach closed to the public because of the state's government shutdown. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

NJ lieutenant governor slams Chris Christie: ‘Beyond words’ he would use beach closed to public

Melissa Quinn · July 3, 2017 3:58 pm

Washington's most powerful special interest group is Congress itself, and its members are more than happy to reach across the aisle when their personal interests are on the line. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

CBO: Budget deficit to rise to $693 billion

Joseph Lawler · June 29, 2017 6:00 pm

President Trump, center, told Republican senators this week that they should boost funding for healthcare in their bill to partially repeal Obamacare, in order to win more votes in the Senate and pass it when they return in July. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump told GOP senators, ‘Put some more money’ into the healthcare bill

Pete Kasperowicz · June 29, 2017 11:49 am

The legislation would provide $11.1 billion for the tax collection agency, holding it below the funding it had a decade ago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

House bill would cut IRS spending by $149 million

Joseph Lawler · June 28, 2017 7:48 pm

House appropriators released an energy spending bill Tuesday that curbs President Trump's proposed cuts by nearly $4 billion. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen raised concerns last week with Energy Secretary Rick Perry that the cuts his agency proposed would put the U.S. at a disadvantage on international research and development. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

House bill cancels most of Trump’s clean energy cuts

John Siciliano · June 27, 2017 5:56 pm

While Republicans in the Senate are weighing a debt ceiling vote in July, the issue has not reached the top of the House GOP agenda. (Illustration by Bill Lesniewski)

Republicans face first debt ceiling showdown in Trump era

Susan Ferrechio · June 26, 2017 4:01 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will join congressional Republicans in seeking lower healthcare premiums. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fate of Obamacare repeal could be decided in Congress next week

Susan Ferrechio · June 25, 2017 4:01 am