Tag: Spending

Members of the European Parliament take part in a vote in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Sept.12, 2018. EU lawmakers have voted in favor of launching action against the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban for allegedly undermining the bloc's democratic values and rule of law.

Beltway Confidential

European Union: How dare you ask us how we waste your money

Tom Rogan · September 19, 2018 2:37 pm

A copy of the $1.3 trillion spending bill is stacked on a table in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington on March 23, 2018.

Red Alert Politics

If millennials are going to #resist anything, it should be the national debt

Brad Johnson · September 19, 2018 4:00 am

United States U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley address a U.N. Security meeting on alleged Russian chemical attack in Britain.

Nikki Haley’s curtains were picked out in 2016, paid for in 2017: Spokesperson

Katelyn Caralle · September 14, 2018 7:16 pm

U.S. Sen Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference in front of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Homestead, Fla.

Rubio slams New York Times for misleading headline about Nikki Haley’s curtains

Diana Stancy Correll · September 14, 2018 5:49 pm

From left, President Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Malia Obama and Michelle's mother Marian Robinson arrive at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Air Force One, Friday, June 15, 2012, in Chicago (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Let’s not pretend Democrats, the media, or anyone really cares about government overspending

Nicole Russell · September 14, 2018 3:08 pm

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Friday, June 1, 2018 at United Nations headquarters.

Beltway Confidential

New York Times blames Nikki Haley for Obama-era spending decision on pricey curtains

Becket Adams · September 14, 2018 1:19 pm

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during a meeting in New York.

$52,000 curtains for Nikki Haley’s office were bought by Obama’s State Department, not Trump’s

Katelyn Caralle · September 14, 2018 12:32 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes in San Diego in March.

Washington Secrets

Trump poised to win $5 billion to build border wall

Paul Bedard · September 14, 2018 12:13 pm

FILE - The Dec. 4, 1989 file photo shows U.S. Navy launching a Trident II, D-5 missile from the submerged submarine USS Tennessee in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.

National Security

Congress funds Pentagon’s new low-yield nuclear warhead

Travis J. Tritten · September 13, 2018 8:05 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Top Florida Republicans have been quick to say Trump is wrong about the death toll in Puerto Rico.

Congress sends Trump its first spending bill for 2019

Susan Ferrechio · September 13, 2018 7:48 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt listens as President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on June 21, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Former EPA chief Scott Pruitt looks for work as coal consultant

John Siciliano · September 12, 2018 9:21 pm

A Delta IV rocket, carrying the Parker Solar Probe, lifts off from launch complex 37 at the Kennedy Space Center, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Parker Solar Probe will venture closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft and is protected by a first-of-its-kind heat shield and other innovative technologies that will provide unprecedented information about the Sun.

Beltway Confidential

Advertising on rockets? That might not be such a bad idea

Erin Dunne · September 11, 2018 2:26 pm