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Budget

Feb 2019

Check out Elizabeth Warren’s $700B child care plan

Jazz Shaw Feb 19, 2019 10:41 AM

Easy peasy!

Here we go again: Omnibus spending bill drops hours before vote

Ed Morrissey Feb 14, 2019 8:41 AM

This is the way the budget fight ends, this is the way the budget fight ends …

Jan 2019

A cure for future government shutdowns

Jazz Shaw Jan 26, 2019 8:31 AM

It would be easy if politicians weren’t addicted to the drama

Dec 2018

Trump: If Nancy won’t build the wall, the military will

Ed Morrissey Dec 11, 2018 8:41 AM

Leverage.

Sep 2018

Shutdown ahead? Trump blasts bipartisan “ridiculous spending bill” over border-wall snub

Ed Morrissey Sep 20, 2018 5:21 PM

“REPUBLICANS MUST FINALLY GET TOUGH!”

Trump: “Most likely” won’t push border-wall funding before midterms

Ed Morrissey Sep 07, 2018 12:01 PM

“It is up to me …”

Aug 2018

Trump cancels pay raises for civilian federal employees

Allahpundit Aug 30, 2018 8:01 PM

“We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course…”

Cost of Trump’s military parade over budget by almost 700%; Update: Parade postponed

Allahpundit Aug 16, 2018 8:41 PM

March.

May 2018

Bob Corker: Let’s face it, no one cares about fiscal responsibility; Update: Corrected

Allahpundit May 18, 2018 4:01 PM

Conservatism, RIP.

Apr 2018

Senate Budget chair: What’s the point of my committee?

Ed Morrissey Apr 17, 2018 9:21 PM

Reform? Suuuuuure.

Mar 2018

We’re gonna build a great big beautiful wall and the U.S. military’s going to pay for it

Allahpundit Mar 27, 2018 4:01 PM

Promises.

Feb 2018

The Trump administration’s plan for revamping food stamps

John Sexton Feb 13, 2018 3:01 PM

America’s Harvest Box.

Trump budget proposal hints at Medicare reform?

Ed Morrissey Feb 12, 2018 6:01 PM

Embrace the deficit suck.

Trump’s budget would phase out funding for PBS, NPR

John Sexton Feb 12, 2018 5:01 PM

Round 27 of this fight.

Will the last fiscal conservative to commit seppuku please shut out the lights?

Jazz Shaw Feb 09, 2018 8:01 AM

Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to introduce fiscal desolation

Rush on the GOP budget: I just don’t worry much about the national debt anymore

Allahpundit Feb 08, 2018 8:41 PM

“All of the apocalyptic warnings I grew up hearing have yet to happen.”

McConnell: We’ve finally agreed — to spend a lot more money

Ed Morrissey Feb 07, 2018 2:01 PM

Schumer: Deal will “consign the arbitrary and pointless sequester caps to the ashbin of history.”

$enate leader$ clo$e to $weeping deal on budget cap$

Ed Morrissey Feb 07, 2018 10:01 AM

All it will co$t i$ money — lot$ of it.

Coming up this week: More shutdown theater?

Ed Morrissey Feb 05, 2018 8:41 AM

Get ready for more political football.

Jan 2018

Whole lotta morphing going on: Dems abandon “Dreamers” in budget talks? Update: Kelly to Capitol Hill

Ed Morrissey Jan 25, 2018 8:41 AM

Trump: Path to citizenship?

The Blame Game, Senate shutdown showdown edition

Ed Morrissey Jan 19, 2018 8:41 AM

Briar patch?

Wait until you see the CFPB’s budget request for this quarter

Jazz Shaw Jan 19, 2018 8:01 AM

“No thanks… we’re good”

GOP antes up their CHIPs in budget showdown

Ed Morrissey Jan 17, 2018 2:01 PM

History.

Will conservatives find a strange, new respect for pork-barrel spending?

Ed Morrissey Jan 10, 2018 6:01 PM

“We just had a political revolution launched against the swamp…”

Trump: “A bill of love” on DACA coming this week

Ed Morrissey Jan 09, 2018 2:01 PM

“We want to have a DACA compromise.”

Bernie Sanders doesn’t want the GOP to shut down the government

Jazz Shaw Jan 09, 2018 9:21 AM

I thought the minority caused shutdowns?

Dec 2017

Haley: We cut almost $300 million from UN budget

Ed Morrissey Dec 26, 2017 9:31 AM

Message sent?

Ryan to Senate: Here’s the CR — take it or leave it

Ed Morrissey Dec 21, 2017 2:41 PM

Payback.

Oct 2017

Does anybody really know what GOP’s tax bill is?

Ed Morrissey Oct 28, 2017 4:01 PM

Promises, promises.

Smooth sailing? McCain endorses budget-reconciliation plan for tax reform

Ed Morrissey Oct 18, 2017 4:01 PM

Trump’s greatest danger is … success?

Sep 2017

NIH to drop big bucks on exciting new transgender studies

Jazz Shaw Sep 17, 2017 6:31 PM

This should end well…

Art of the deal? Trump wins big for disaster aid, Pelosi-Schumer pact

Ed Morrissey Sep 08, 2017 12:01 PM

“A bipartisan moment.”

Initial Harvey aid may have lots of baggage attached

Ed Morrissey Sep 06, 2017 1:31 PM

Unclean.

Aug 2017

Will Congress blow disaster aid — again?

Ed Morrissey Aug 29, 2017 8:01 PM

Ride hobby horses and pork barrels another time.

Trump: No really, the Senate has to make this change that’s … unnecessary?

Ed Morrissey Aug 25, 2017 8:41 AM

Disunity.

Welcome to the 2017 edition of shutdown theater

Jazz Shaw Aug 24, 2017 8:01 AM

My way or the highway

Debt ceiling fight: Seems like old times

Ed Morrissey Aug 03, 2017 10:01 AM

Nostalgia.

Jul 2017

Jack Reed and Susan Collins on hot mic: Trump is “crazy,” “I’m worried”

Allahpundit Jul 25, 2017 8:01 PM

Troubled.

McConnell: On second thought, let’s work until mid-August

Ed Morrissey Jul 11, 2017 6:41 PM

Recess delayed, or recess denied?

Time to cancel August recess — for good?

Ed Morrissey Jul 06, 2017 6:01 PM

Anachronism.

Jun 2017

What happens when a state can’t pay their lottery winners?

Jazz Shaw Jun 17, 2017 4:01 PM

The mob is generally better organized than this

May 2017

“Markedly improving”? Q1 GDP estimate upgraded … to 1.2%

Ed Morrissey May 26, 2017 2:41 PM

Meh.

Selling off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is still a bad idea, Mr. President

Jazz Shaw May 23, 2017 12:31 PM

To the highest bidder

Christie: Naah, Trump won’t defund the drug war

Ed Morrissey May 09, 2017 4:41 PM

“I have good reason to believe it’s not going to happen.”