Tag: Spending

Energy and Environment

Here’s what Senate Democrats plan to say about the cost of climate change

Zack Colman · August 1, 2014 1:23 pm

A Dollar Tree store is seen on July 28, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Dollar Tree announced it will buy Family Dollar Stores for about $8.5 billion in cash and stock. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

What Dollar Tree’s purchase of Family Dollar says about the U.S. economy

Joseph Lawler · July 31, 2014 9:00 am

IMF says Cyprus will need more spending cuts

IMF says Cyprus will need more spending cuts

Menelaos Hadjicostis · July 30, 2014 5:47 pm

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on Thursday to rehear a case over subsidies in President Obama's healthcare law, making it potentially less likely that the case will wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Chief Medicare actuary says Obamacare cuts unlikely to be viable in long-run

Philip Klein · July 28, 2014 7:15 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks at a press conference on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014, following a House GOP conference meeting. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Deja vu as spending bills take a back seat to partisan politics

Sean Lengell · July 24, 2014 5:12 pm

The Obama's arrive in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., for last year's summer vacation. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

5 months off: Martha’s Vineyard break will put Obama over 140 days on vacation

Paul Bedard · July 21, 2014 10:04 pm

(Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

Roads are in bad shape, but just how bad?

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2014 1:00 pm

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Another warning that a national debt crisis is looming

Philip Klein · July 17, 2014 9:04 pm

The Citizens United ruling acknowledged that the First Amendment's legal prohibition on Congress making no law infringing on speech meant what it said. (iStock Photo)

Federal courts should mediate disputes over separation of powers: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 9:00 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Friday. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Josh Earnest tries to explain why the White House doesn’t blame Democrats for congressional inaction

Brian Hughes · July 15, 2014 6:19 pm

Copies of President Obama's proposed fiscal 2015 budget set out for distribution on Capitol Hill in March. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congressional Budget Office downgrades fiscal outlook, but not because of debt

Joseph Lawler · July 15, 2014 2:43 pm

Democrats and Republicans are fighting over how to fund highway repair projects this summer. (Thinkstock)

White House backs GOP highway bill, putting it at odds with Democrats

Brian Hughes · July 14, 2014 10:24 pm