Tag: Spending

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, walks to his office after a weekly conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 18, 2019.

Border funding stalemate: McConnell rejects latest House bill

Susan Ferrechio · June 27, 2019 2:36 pm

Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump.

Boxed-in Pelosi calls for ‘immediate conference’ with Trump, GOP on border bill

Susan Ferrechio · June 27, 2019 2:04 pm

Pelosi's personal favorability ratings are underwater in nearly a dozen seats where vulnerable Republicans are running for re-election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House Democrats pass border funding bill that leaves out money to slow massive surge

Susan Ferrechio · June 26, 2019 2:05 am

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, speaks at a press briefing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 20, 2019.

Nancy Pelosi: Mick Mulvaney has ‘no credibility’ on debt ceiling fight

Naomi Lim · June 20, 2019 4:18 pm

Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio leaves the office of House Speaker Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2017, after a meeting with other Republicans to rally support for GOP's long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare" as it moves toward a showdown vote.

Rep. Bob Latta: Congress doesn’t deserve a pay raise, and members should have to go on record to take one

Rep. Bob Latta · June 20, 2019 4:00 am

FILE--In this June 19, 2008, file photo, members of the 200th Red Horse Air National Guard Civil Engineering Squadron from Camp Perry in Ohio, work on building a road at the border in Nogales, Ariz. In his threat Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to use the military on the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised wall is built, President Donald Trump again heaped blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama, and congressional Democrats for creating a dangerous and dysfunctional border.

Sen. Mike Braun: Despite gridlock, Congress has a real solution to address the border crisis

Sen. Mike Braun · June 20, 2019 4:00 am

Senate Appropriations subcommittee chair Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., attends a hearing on the defense budget on Wednesday May 8, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Top Republican: Deal is ‘close’ on budget caps

Susan Ferrechio · June 19, 2019 9:02 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, left, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney listen as President Donald Trump delivers remarks about the economy on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, July 27, 2018, in Washington.

House, Senate leaders will meet with Trump aides on Wednesday on raising caps

Susan Ferrechio · June 18, 2019 4:59 pm

In this Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, just cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

Poll finds little Republican support for spending cuts

Alana Goodman · June 15, 2019 3:10 pm

Cartoon rendering of a pig.

Washington Secrets

Costly ‘earmarks’ reach $15B, largest since pork ban imposed

Paul Bedard · June 12, 2019 1:44 pm

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney speaks during an interview with the Washington Examiner, Thursday, June 1, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Mick Mulvaney guzzles the deficit Kool-Aid

Tom Rogan · June 12, 2019 11:44 am

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington.

Mulvaney says there is ‘no center of gravity’ for cutting government spending

Colin Wilhelm · June 11, 2019 6:14 pm