Tag: Spending

Police would receive $422.5 million in fiscal 2018, under the GOP proposal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Capitol Police get funding boost in House spending plan

Susan Ferrechio · June 22, 2017 2:12 pm

Energy Department says it is trying to consolidate duplicative programs. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry pulls the plug on international clean energy office

John Siciliano · June 15, 2017 11:26 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was showered with praise and adulation at all four Capitol Hill hearings he visited this week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Kay Granger to Jim Mattis: Use your popularity to end spending caps

Jamie McIntyre · June 15, 2017 5:47 pm

The new report indicates $1.2 trillion in improper payments have been made since 2003. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Federal government wasted $136 billion in 2015

Melissa Quinn · June 13, 2017 4:24 pm

A government shutdown could be justifiable in certain circumstances, treasury secretary tells Congress. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Mnuchin: ‘There could be a good shutdown’

Joseph Lawler · June 13, 2017 4:03 pm

Excavators load trucks with rare earth on a quay at the Port of Lianyungang, in Lianyungang city, east China's Jiangsu province. The future direction of the coal industry is aimed at harvesting what are known as "rare earth elements," for which the U.S. industry depends on China. (Imaginechina via AP Images)

Energy and Environment

Coal industry could be in store for a ‘rare earth’ reboot

John Siciliano · June 12, 2017 4:01 am

Thankfully, the scientific community isn't taking the FDA's non-scientific approach to kratom lying down. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Bill advances to speed up drug and device approval

Kimberly Leonard · June 7, 2017 7:56 pm

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said during a discussion of eliminating the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, "A state like New Hampshire doesn't have the funds to put together programs if you take away the federal dollars that support these at-risk kids." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Dear Jeanne Shaheen: If New Hampshire can’t afford education programs, who can?

Neal McCluskey · June 6, 2017 8:07 pm

What makes a transportation project qualify as economic development versus empty stimulus? (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)

Beltway Confidential

Building roads and infrastructure is a conservative agenda

Ron Meyer · June 6, 2017 5:00 pm

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said Thursday that the organization would continue to fight to receive public funding for its services. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Planned Parenthood will fight for public funding, Cecile Richards says

Kimberly Leonard · June 1, 2017 5:55 pm

Budget director says the debt ceiling is like a "smoke alarm," a warning when it is reached that the U.S. has "spent more than we have." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mulvaney favors attaching spending reforms to increase in debt ceiling

Joseph Lawler · May 31, 2017 10:11 pm

Voters Hold Officials Accountable for Deficits in Many Countries. Just Not Here.

Kevin R. Kosar · May 29, 2017 2:06 pm