Budget Battles
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Coronavirus Emergency Funding Deal Is ‘Close,’ Pelosi Says
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Trump: We’ll Spend ‘Whatever Is Appropriate’ to Fight Coronavirus
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Trump’s Coronavirus Response Raises Alarms
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Trump's Emergency Coronavirus Response
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Trump Promises More Bailout Cash for Farmers
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Elizabeth Warren Won the Debate. Will It Matter?
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How Medicare for All Is Tearing Democrats Apart
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Trump Administration Sued Over Border Wall Funding
By Michael RaineyThree groups filed suit against the Trump administration Friday over its plans to use Department of Defense funds to pay for the construction of the wall along the border with Mexico. The 2020...
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Congress Wants at Least $6 Billion to Fight Coronavirus
House and Senate appropriators are discussing an emergency funding package of $6 billion to $8 billion to fight the spread of the coronavirus and hope to have the legislation ready for a House vote...
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Navy Chief: Losing Shipbuilding Funds Is ‘Not Helpful’
By Michael RaineyActing Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Thursday that the Trump administration’s diversion of funds from the Navy’s shipbuilding budget to border wall construction was “not helpful” to the current...
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Pelosi: Congress Close to a Bipartisan Deal on Coronavirus Funding
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that lawmakers are nearing agreement on emergency funding for the government’s coronavirus response. "We're coming close to a bipartisan agreement...
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Sanders Targets Major Executive Tax Break
By Michael RaineySen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled new legislation Thursday that takes aim at a tax break for retirement plans that benefit many highly paid executives. The bill, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Chris...
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Trump: We’ll Spend ‘Whatever Is Appropriate’ to Fight Coronavirus
President Trump on Wednesday evening defended his administration’s preparedness for the new coronavirus, saying that the risk to the American public remains low and that Vice President Mike Pence...
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Fact Checking Sanders’ Latest Claims About Medicare for All
By Michael RaineyBernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All proposal once again came under attack in Tuesday’s Democratic debate. In defense of his plan, the senator from Vermont cited a recent analysis in the British journal...
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Trump Wants $2.5 Billion to Fight the Coronavirus. Is It Enough?
“This could be bad.” With those words, public health officials on Tuesday urged Americans to prepare for the coronavirus to spread across U.S. communities and bring with it potentially significant...
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Sanders Releases Funding Options for His Big Plans
By Michael RaineyFacing questions about how he intends to pay for an ambitious policy agenda that includes single-payer health care, student debt cancellation and an expansion of Social Security, Vermont Sen. Bernie...
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Sanders Bristles When Asked on ’60 Minutes’ About the Cost of His Proposals
In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t want to get into any details when pressed about the price tag for his ambitious agenda. He said his Medicare-for-All plan would cost...
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House Votes to Push Shutdown Deadline to December
The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure to fund the government through December 20. The Senate is set to take up the bill before current short-term funding expires on Thursday night, and the...
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Congress Has Three Days to Avert a Government Shutdown
You may not have realized it with everything else going on , but we’re technically just a few days away from a government shutdown. Current funding for federal agencies expires after November 21 —...
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Trump Wants South Korea to Pay Up for Protection: Report
By Michael RaineyPresident Trump is demanding that South Korea pay billions of additional dollars for U.S. protection, according to a report Friday at CNN . South Korea is paying about $1 billion this year to cover...
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Cost of Wars Since 9/11: $6.4 Trillion and Rising
By Michael RaineyThe total cost of the wars fought since 9/11 is approaching $6.4 trillion, according to an annual report published Wednesday by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown...
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Fed Chief: Get the Deficit Under Control While the Economy Is Still Strong
By Michael RaineyFederal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress needs to get the deficit under control while the economy is still growing and the outlook remains positive. Failing to do so...