Tag: Spending

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

CFPB’s spending skyrockets nearly 50 percent

Richard Pollock · March 18, 2014 12:00 am

The Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Sunshine Week is a good time for Congress to be honest about real costs of Fannie and Freddie

Mark Tapscott · March 17, 2014 4:00 am

Time to clean house in Veterans Affairs

Pete Hegseth · March 12, 2014 12:00 am

AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Shutdown bonanza: States reaped $10 for every $1 spent to keep parks open

Paul Bedard · March 11, 2014 4:00 am

Gates on Defense Spending

Gates on Defense Spending

Geoffrey Norman · March 10, 2014 1:45 pm

Obama’s Budget Increases Spending 63 Percent, Increases Debt By $8.3 Trillion

Daniel Halper · March 4, 2014 11:30 am

Obama pushes domestic priorities in 2015 budget

Joseph Lawler · March 4, 2014 12:00 am

President Obama will ask Congress to approve spending more than $5 billion on medical training to turn out some 13,000 primary care providers over the next 10 years. (AP image)

Obama seeks more federal spending to train doctors

Associated Press · February 27, 2014 1:48 pm

Bobby Jindal touts Louisiana’s superiority to ‘the Obama minimum wage economy’

Beltway Confidential

Bobby Jindal touts Louisiana’s superiority to ‘the Obama minimum wage economy’

Joel Gehrke · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

In this May 22, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a queen Italian honeybee, the large bee just left of center, is surrounded on an apiary nest in Washington, D.C. The USDA hopes to help honeybees by providing $3 million to farmers and ranchers in five states to improve their pastures. It turns out that dairy cows and bees like many of the same plants. (AP Photo/USDA, Lance Cheung)

Energy and Environment

USDA spending $3M to feed honeybees in Midwest

M.L. JOHNSON · February 25, 2014 9:54 pm

Obama’s Budget Increases Spending by $56 Billion

Obama’s Budget Increases Spending by $56 Billion

Daniel Halper · February 21, 2014 2:26 pm

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Reform entitlements — or go bust

Charles Paul Blahous · February 21, 2014 5:00 am