Tag: Spending

The budget deficit is not the only way the national debt grows.

Donations to cut the national debt plummet to 14-year low

Pete Kasperowicz · November 6, 2018 8:22 pm

The rising sun silhouettes the U.S. Capitol dome at daybreak, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Washington.

Beware the lame-duck Congress

Ross Marchand · November 5, 2018 5:00 am

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends a conference in Paris, Tuesday, May 29, 2018.

George Soros gave $1M to group that paid for Fusion GPS research

Daniel Chaitin · November 1, 2018 1:43 am

FILE - In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump pauses during remarks at a campaign rally at Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Fla. The Robesonian paper in Lumberton, N.C., announced itâs dropping an 8-page color comics section from Sunday editions. A newspaper editorial said it cut the comics because of rising newsprint costs spurred by Trump administration tariffs on imported paper. The newspaper says itâs âa decision that we really believe was made at the White House.â

Trump: ‘We’re going to start paying down debt’

Pete Kasperowicz · October 31, 2018 8:17 pm

Arizona National Guard soldiers line up as they get ready for a visit from Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey prior their deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix.

Beltway Confidential

Sending troops to the border is an expensive boondoggle and a waste of taxpayer dollars

Erin Dunne · October 30, 2018 4:47 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

National Security

Trump ordered $33B cut to national defense budget next year, Pentagon’s No. 2 says

Travis J. Tritten · October 26, 2018 2:30 pm

President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington.

Agencies stall and divert in response to Trump’s 5 percent spending cut demand

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2018 6:31 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Washington.

Trump orders Cabinet to cut agency budgets by 5 percent

Steven Nelson · October 17, 2018 5:49 pm

President Donald Trump cuts a ribbon during an event on federal regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. "Let's cut the red tape, let's set free our dreams," Trump said as he symbolically cut a ribbon on stacks of paper representing the size of the regulatory code.

Energy and Environment

White House boasts it actually cut regulatory costs in 2018, $23B so far

John Siciliano · October 17, 2018 12:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Mitch McConnell's odd excuse for inaction on entitlement reform

Philip Klein · October 16, 2018 9:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why Italy is confident it will beat the European Union’s fiscal showdown

Tom Rogan · October 16, 2018 7:25 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

Mitch McConnell blames entitlement programs for rising deficit

Colin Wilhelm · October 16, 2018 5:24 pm