Tag: Spending

On Wednesday, the Labor Department reports on U.S. producer price inflation for June.

Annual inflation hovers at 5.4% in July amid overheating fears

Zach Halaschak · August 11, 2021 12:31 pm

Beltway Confidential

Should Congress pour trillions more into broken bureaucracies?

Ron Faucheux · August 11, 2021 12:00 pm

The House will vote on legislation to enhance the child tax credit

Republicans look to force Democrats to raise debt ceiling on their own

Zach Halaschak · August 11, 2021 10:02 am

Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget blueprint does not include specific clean energy or climate policy details but directs individual committees to write legislation as part of a sprawling reconciliation package that fits within the spending limit.

Democrats prepare plan to pass ‘SALT cap relief’ tax break for wealthy

Zach Halaschak · August 9, 2021 3:33 pm

Beltway Confidential

Poll: Large majority opposes Democrats’ big spending bill

Christopher Tremoglie · August 9, 2021 2:03 pm

Trump's plan, according to administration officials, would seek to facilitate more than $1.5 trillion in investments for projects such as road and bridge construction, waterway improvements and rural development by spending $200 billion in taxpayer money to jump-start the work. (Examiner file)

A missed opportunity on infrastructure

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2021 4:08 am

Tennessee targets water, sewer, broadband projects for new COVID relief spending

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2021 12:00 am

Wharton budget model predicts bipartisan infrastructure bust

Conn Carroll · August 5, 2021 8:29 pm

Trump: Bipartisan infrastructure bill will lead to ‘massive socialist expansion’

Jake Dima · July 30, 2021 2:39 pm

Bridge inspectors check the structural integrity of the Rachel Carson bridge in downtown Pittsburgh.

What is Biden talking about?

Timothy P. Carney · July 29, 2021 11:36 am

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a cashier hands a customer his change and receipt during a transaction at a Sears store, in Henderson, Nev. The University of Michigan issues its index of consumer sentiment for June, 2014 on Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Consumer confidence reaches pre-pandemic levels

Zach Halaschak · July 27, 2021 2:54 pm

One dollar note sheets sit in a stack before receiving a serial number and the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Federal Reserve seals in Washington, D.C., U.S. The value of the dollar is rising as the Fed raises interest rates to combat the country's painful inflation.

Beltway Confidential

Reckless tax and spending spree will cripple the economy and possibly the Democratic Party

Bruce Thompson · July 26, 2021 3:07 pm