Tag: Spending

The outline of Trump's initial budget calls for a steep cut to State Department funding. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

State Department makes quiet case against budget cuts

Joel Gehrke · March 7, 2017 9:49 pm

"There's a good reason they don't have a score, yet, and that's because we're giving freedom to people they haven't had before," Brady said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

GOP: Obamacare replacement cost to be out before floor vote

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 7, 2017 3:47 pm

"The challenge that we have is that Medicare is going broke," Price said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

HHS Secretary Price won’t rule out Medicare changes

Robert King · March 5, 2017 5:49 pm

"Any time you put something off the table, you are asking for trouble," Panetta said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Panetta calls not cutting entitlements ‘dangerous’

Robert King · March 5, 2017 5:44 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Let the infrastructure projects begin…

Washington Examiner · March 3, 2017 8:00 pm

Critical but Not Serious

William Kristol · March 3, 2017 6:55 am

Details have not been yet released, and may not even have been figured out by the White House itself. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s budget proposal might just work

Quin Hillyer · March 2, 2017 11:25 pm

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after speaking to Navy and shipyard personnel aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., Thursday, March 2, 2017. The ship which is still under construction is due to be delivered to the Navy later this year. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

National Security

Trump: Ending sequester will help the Navy ‘control costs’

Sarah Bedford · March 2, 2017 8:10 pm

"Policymakers should address the debt limit well in advance of the 'X-Date' range if they want to guarantee that the Treasury can continue to pay all of its bills in full and on time," said Shai Akabas, the group's fiscal policy director. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Debt limit could hit same day as government funding runs out

Joseph Lawler · March 2, 2017 7:59 pm

RIP, Tea Party: 2009-2017

Kelly Jane Torrance · March 1, 2017 8:25 pm

"The Appropriations Committee values the input and perspective of every member of Congress and the people they represent," Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., said in opening the request floodgates. "It is my goal to involve all members in the appropriations process from the outset." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lawmakers file before the appropriations ‘cardinals’ to kiss the rings

Nicole Duran · March 1, 2017 6:53 pm

Conservatives awoke this morning with a nagging question: Just how is Trump planning to pay for all of this? (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Tell-Tale Budget: How is Trump going to pay for all of his promises?

April Ponnuru · March 1, 2017 4:03 pm