Tag: Spending

McConnell: Bipartisan deal to raise debt ceiling and spending caps as soon as today

Susan Ferrechio · May 21, 2019 7:17 pm

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo shows Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., followed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leaving a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Amash isnât taking back his call for President Trumpâs impeachment. The fourth-term congressman took considerable heat on Monday, May 20, 2019, for tweeting over the weekend that special counsel Robert Muellerâs report outlined obstruction by the president.

Beltway Confidential

Get mad at Justin Amash all you want, but he’s still the biggest fiscal conservative

Jack Hunter · May 21, 2019 6:59 pm

This is one of four of the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" signs as seen Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 that has been rented to The LUV Boutique,a small chain of adult entertainment stores, as seen on the southbound side of Interstate-91 outside of Hartford, Conn.

Beltway Confidential

For infrastructure funding, follow the money on the Coca-Cola highway

Tom Joyce · May 21, 2019 6:51 pm

A young woman sadly looks at her bill while sitting in front of a computer.

Beltway Confidential

The real reason millennials are in such bad financial shape

Suzanne Venker · May 21, 2019 6:25 pm

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, pauses before a news conference as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Close those executive branch slush funds

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2019 2:00 pm

In this March 30, 2019 photo, a tourists take photos of the razor-wire-covered border wall that separates Nogales, Ariz. at left, and Nogales, Mexico on the right.

Wall fight looms again as lawmakers prep for budget talks

Susan Ferrechio · May 19, 2019 4:05 am

Washington Secrets

EPA rejects auditor’s call to recoup $124,000 in travel costs from ex-boss Pruitt

Paul Bedard · May 16, 2019 5:53 pm

Chairwoman Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, speaks as Energy Secretary Perry appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

Energy and Environment

House Democrats reject Trump budget cuts, roll out $46.4B energy and climate spending bill

John Siciliano · May 14, 2019 7:53 pm

Soldiers with Florida National Guard's Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, load food and water for the public at an aid distribution point in the wake of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Disaster aid spending package keeps growing as parties bicker over funding deal

Susan Ferrechio · May 10, 2019 4:38 pm

Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump.

Schumer blasts Trump’s ‘bloviating’ Florida Panhandle rally

Susan Ferrechio · May 9, 2019 3:18 pm

President Donald Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif., Friday April 5, 2019.

New York Times editorial board tells Congress to ‘give Trump his border money’

Caitlin Yilek · May 6, 2019 5:33 pm

Federal deficit to rise to $900 billion for 2019, highest since 2012: CBO

Colin Wilhelm · May 2, 2019 9:36 pm