Tag: Spending

This illustration made available by NASA on March 29, 2018 shows the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft flying over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance. The MarCOs will be the first CubeSats - a kind of modular, mini-satellite - flown into deep space. They're designed to fly along behind NASA's InSight lander on its cruise to Mars.

Beltway Confidential

Go to Mars, but also boost research into deep space travel

Tom Rogan · August 24, 2018 4:13 pm

Signage is displayed outside a Planned Parenthood office.

Beltway Confidential

GOP too busy to be bothered with defunding Planned Parenthood

Kimberly Ross · August 24, 2018 3:59 pm

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, left, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., sit during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

GOP senator: White House won’t send new rescission package

Susan Ferrechio · August 22, 2018 9:47 pm

Energy and Environment

Endangered species law costing the economy hundreds of billions of dollars, says CEI

John Siciliano · August 21, 2018 5:00 am

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal.

National Security

Mick Mulvaney: ‘Shouldn’t be news to anybody’ that DC politically motivated to derail Trump’s military parade

Naomi Lim · August 19, 2018 2:28 pm

President Trump and Maj. Gen. Walter Piatt view air assault exercises outside Hangar 2060 at Fort Drum, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, before a signing ceremony for H.R. 5515, the "John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019."

Beltway Confidential

Another 92 million reasons to cancel Trump’s silly military parade

Philip Wegmann · August 16, 2018 5:30 pm

A view of the evacuated houses built under the remains part of the collapsed Morandi highway bridge, in Genoa, northern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below.

Beltway Confidential

A bridge collapsed in Italy — and a reminder of a promise Trump hasn’t kept yet

Erin Dunne · August 15, 2018 8:09 pm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 5th, 2018, to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the fiscal 2019 budget for the Education Department.

Betsy Devos gives $359 million to assist students displaced by natural disasters, even as prior grant money remains unused

Brooke Conrad · August 15, 2018 3:50 pm

President Donald Trump signs the $716 billion defense policy bill named for Sen. John McCain at Fort Drum, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 13, 2018.

National Security

John Kerry: ‘Disgraceful’ that Trump didn’t mention John McCain at bill signing

Pete Kasperowicz · August 13, 2018 8:50 pm

FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama is applauded after signing the Affordable Care Act into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Government cost estimates for expanding Medicaid to millions more low-income people are increasing faster than expected, raising questions about a vital part of President Barack Obamaâs health care law. Estimated per-person costs were an eye-catching 49 percent higher than previously calculated, according to a recent report to Congress from nonpartisan experts with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new estimate of $6,366 per person for 2015 was nearly $2,100 higher than expected.

Obama administration gave out $434 million in improper Obamacare payments: Watchdog

Robert King · August 13, 2018 7:04 pm

President Donald Trump reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

Government accountability watchdog scolds Customs and Border Protection over border wall prototype evaluation

Naomi Lim · August 6, 2018 6:21 pm

A firefighter runs while trying to save a home as a wildfire tears through Lakeport, Calif., on July 31, 2018.

Fire and fury: How government failures make wildfires even worse

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2018 4:00 am