Tag: Spending

An Afghan soldier launches a rocket propelled grenade as U.S. soldiers duck during a clash with insurgents in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

Beltway Confidential

The War in Afghanistan is going even worse than you think

Daniel DePetris · May 2, 2019 12:00 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., walks to her car after she visited with supporters at Papa Keno's in the Drake neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Hate campaign spending? Gillibrand’s ‘democracy dollars’ would put it on steroids

Luke Wachob · May 1, 2019 9:40 pm

This photo made on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Zelienople, Pa., shows 1040 tax forms instructions printed from the Internal Revenue Service web page that are used for 2018 U.S. federal tax returns.

Washington Secrets

America’s tax bill: $5.2T, $14,998 per person

Paul Bedard · May 1, 2019 4:06 pm

In this May 19, 2017, photo, a man works on the Southern Nevada portion of U.S. Interstate 11 near Boulder City, Nev. The planned route for U.S. Interstate 11 will connect Las Vegas with Phoenix.

Beltway Confidential

Republicans should block any Trump-Schumer-Pelosi $2 trillion infrastructure plan

Philip Klein · April 30, 2019 5:35 pm

Dr. Erin Berry, Washington State Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, holds a folder as she listens at a news conference announcing a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's Title X "gag rule" Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, in Seattle. The rule issued last Friday would impact federal funding for reproductive health care and family planning services.

House Democrats move to defund Trump administration rule targeting Planned Parenthood

Kimberly Leonard · April 29, 2019 10:03 pm

National Security

Pentagon wants to use space robots to fix satellites

Russ Read · April 24, 2019 1:57 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Judge to block Trump administration’s rules targeting Planned Parenthood

Kimberly Leonard · April 24, 2019 1:52 am

Trump administration’s addition of citizenship question to census to be tested at Supreme Court

Melissa Quinn · April 23, 2019 12:00 am

This Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Zelienople, Pa., shows multiple forms printed from the Internal Revenue Service web page that are used for 2018 U.S. federal tax returns.

Beltway Confidential

Deals and discounts might make Tax Day seem celebratory, but it isn’t

Erin Dunne · April 15, 2019 4:07 pm

After 100 days in charge, House Democrats learn unity has its limits

Susan Ferrechio · April 13, 2019 4:02 am

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduces the Medicare for All Act of 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster

Sally Pipes · April 11, 2019 7:29 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil Medicare for All legislation to reform healthcare.

No new senators sign onto Bernie Sanders’ expanded Medicare for All Act

Kimberly Leonard · April 10, 2019 3:00 pm