Budget Battles
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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Johnson Defies Hardliners, Pushes Ahead With Foreign Aid Plan
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Facing Right-Wing Revolt, Johnson Says He Won't Resign
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Johnson Unveils Plan for Israel, Ukraine Aid
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Trump Throws Johnson a Lifeline: ‘He’s Doing a Very Good Job’
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Biden’s New Student Debt Relief Plan Would Cost $84 Billion: Analysis
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Experts Warn of a Coming Fiscal Crisis as Trump Prepares to Take Charge
By Eric PianinWith the Republicans’ new national agenda in a state of flux just a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office, some budget and tax analysts are warning of a dimming fiscal...
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Both Trump and Clinton Would Drive the Federal Budget off a Cliff
By Rob GarverA new analysis of the major party candidates’ tax and spending plans by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows that Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both advocating...
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Trump Policy Advisor Promises an Astounding $7 Trillion Surplus
By Rob GarverDonald Trump sent Sam Clovis, who identifies himself as Trump’s chief policy advisor and the national co-chair of his presidential campaign, to Washington on Wednesday to talk to an audience of...
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Two Year Budget Deal Passes in the House
By Kelsey Snell, The Washington PostCongress on Wednesday moved a step closer to clearing a bipartisan budget deal that would boost spending for domestic and defense programs over two years while suspending the debt limit into 2017...
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Four Political Issues That Could Tank the Markets
By Jeff Cox, CNBCDonald Trump's raucous presidential campaign won't be the only thing lighting the political fires this fall. A handful of significant deadlines and policy decisions loom for Washington and Wall...
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Washington Inches Toward Another Fiscal Cliff
By Eric PianinAfter a long day of partisan finger pointing over the Amtrak train disaster, bickering over the defense budget, and worrying that the government is short-changing vital highway and infrastructure...
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Obama’s Spending Spree Could Push Long-Term Deficit over $1 Trillion
By Matthew Sabas, The Fiscal TimesThe decrease in the federal budget deficit has been touted as an accomplishment by many—most recently by President Obama during his State of the Union Address—but America’s debt situation is far from...
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Will the Dow Cross 18,000 Threshold in the Week Ahead?
By Patti Domm, CNBCTraders will be searching for any signs the economy and job market are really kicking into higher gear, as Friday's jobs report suggests. November saw the strongest employment gains in 35 months, and...
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Lame-Duck Action Could Add $1.5T to Long-Term Debt
By Eric PianinLargely under the radar screen, lawmakers are toying with ideas that could add as much as $1.5 trillion to the national debt in the coming decade. Washington is transfixed on President Obama’s new...
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$1.5B Over Budget, 10 Years Late: DHS HQ May Be Cut Off
By Jerry Markon, The Washington PostThe Department of Homeland Security’s long-delayed new headquarters is running into trouble in Congress again, with Republican lawmakers seeking to end funding for the troubled project and Democrats...
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Yellen Sails Through Senate Banking Committee
By Alister Bull and Margaret Chadbourn, ReutersThe Senate Banking Committee on Thursday approved Janet Yellen's nomination to become the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, sending it to the full Senate for a final vote. If she is confirmed...
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Why Paul Ryan May Be the One to Beat in 2016
By Eric PianinStung by President Obama’s pummeling of the Romney-Ryan GOP presidential ticket last November, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had appeared to fade from view. “He seems to have fallen entirely off the radar of...
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How Our Sprawling Nanny State Is Putting Parents Out of Work
By ROBERT WEISSBERG, The Fiscal TimesEveryone is aware of SNAP (food stamps), the mother of all food handouts, where over 47.8 million people participate at an annual cost of $81 billion. But awareness of the sprawling array of other...
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Obamacare Mess Defines GOP 2014 Campaign Strategy
By Steve Holland, ReutersJust a few short weeks ago, Republican elders could only hope that time would make voters forget about the government shutdown the party engineered in October. Now, with millions of Americans in an...
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CBO’s Elmendorf Downplays Need for Big Budget Deal
By Eric PianinCongressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf on Wednesday offered advice to lawmakers trying to negotiate a budget deal to avoid another government shutdown early next year: “Big steps are...