Tag: Spending

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, file photo, a statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury Department reports on the federal budget picture for April and for the fiscal year thus far on Monday, May 12, 2014.

Beltway Confidential

The future is not a piggy bank: the danger of sky high deficits

Erin Dunne · October 16, 2018 4:05 pm

President Trump with Vice President Mike Pence speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, about the $1.3 trillion spending bill.

Federal budget deficit clocks in at $779B for 2018, largest since 2012

Joseph Lawler, Colin Wilhelm · October 15, 2018 6:08 pm

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens to House Speaker Paul Rya, R-Wis., speak to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018.

Top House Republican introduces bill to fully fund Trump's border wall

Anna Giaritelli · October 12, 2018 9:55 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to Washington Examiner reporter Susan Ferrechio at his office on Capitol Hill, Thursday, October 11, 2018.

McConnell to seek $5B for border wall

Susan Ferrechio · October 11, 2018 8:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

New proposal to avert America’s debt crisis shows how politically impossible the problem actually is to solve

Philip Klein · October 11, 2018 4:26 pm

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

National Security

Mitch McConnell sets stage for border wall funding battle in lame duck session

Susan Ferrechio · October 10, 2018 1:36 pm

Beltway Confidential

Donald Trump embraces self-defeating Republican attack on ‘Medicare for all’

Philip Klein · October 10, 2018 10:42 am

Jim Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense, smiles while introducing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. President Donald Trump's administration will call on Congress to allocate $8 billion over the next five years to establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the military, Pence said today.

How to avoid a bloated Space Force

John Dale Grover · October 10, 2018 4:00 am

Firefighters monitor a backfire while battling the Delta Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif.

Energy and Environment

Before passing farm bill, Congress has a big fight over wildfires to get through

Josh Siegel · October 10, 2018 4:00 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks to the National Press Club.

Paul Ryan warns of post-election border wall funding fight

Susan Ferrechio · October 8, 2018 9:33 pm

President Trump speaks before signing a policy directive to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.

Trump mulls replacing Air Force head over Space Force management

Diana Stancy Correll · October 4, 2018 9:50 pm

An Options For Youth charter school is seen in this strip mall in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Education officials are poised to probe the financing structure of the Pasadena-based charter school, that serves 20,000 students at 60 centers throughout the state.

Public school buildings belong to public school students — including charter students

Nina Rees · October 3, 2018 4:00 am