Tag: Spending

"Faster growth in total healthcare spending was primarily due to accelerated growth in spending for private health insurance, hospital care and physician and clinical services," a release from Health Affairs said Friday. (AP Photo)

Healthcare spending rises to almost $10,000 per person

Robert King · December 2, 2016 7:11 pm

Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

Paul Bedard · November 30, 2016 12:07 am

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said House lawmakers will take up a 2017 budget early next year, but not before Inauguration Day. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP’s ‘aggressive’ 2017 agenda: Obamacare, border, taxes, entitlements

Susan Ferrechio · November 29, 2016 5:15 pm

The increased spending would be offset by drawdowns in the petroleum reserve, created as an emergency fuel storage facility in response to the 1970s Arab oil embargo, and rescinding certain spending authority, which one expert deemed a novel and reasonable approach. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Congress taps oil, Obamacare for cures funding

Robert King · November 29, 2016 2:54 am

Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, is objecting to plans to quickly take up the bill if the Senate keeps a provision weakening the Sunshine Act, which Grassley co-authored. (AP Photo)

Grassley wants changes to cures bill

Robert King · November 28, 2016 6:37 pm

"We are working on how to fund the government," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

GOP prepping three-month spending measure

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2016 9:15 pm

Former House Speaker John Boehner says Donald Trump should pursue a big infrastructure spending bill in his first 100 days in office. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Boehner: Trump needs to figure out how to pay for new infrastructure quickly

Kyle Feldscher · November 15, 2016 7:47 pm

Former Rep. Aaron Schock expects to be indicted by a federal grand jury for charges relating to the spending scandal that led him to resign last year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Disgraced Rep. Schock expects federal charges over spending

Mariana Barillas · November 10, 2016 6:59 pm

NASA spent $390,000 on a campaign to promote Green Ninja, a superhero the agency used to educate children about global warming and tell Americans what not to eat. (Screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Spending like ‘Mad Men,’ federal agencies drop millions on advertising

Philip Wegmann · November 4, 2016 2:53 pm

It's a sign that Trump's high name recognition may be backfiring on him in the general election. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

National debt will make Trump or Clinton a ‘lame duck’

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2016 3:01 pm

The RAH-66 Comanche reconnaissance/attack helicopter accounted for $9.8 billion of the total before the plug was pulled. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

National Security

DoD report: $58 billion wasted in canceled weapons

Jamie McIntyre · October 26, 2016 12:45 pm

Trump, Clinton dodge debt reduction questions

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2016 3:08 am