My latest monthly piece for the Washington Examiner magazine looks at the recent rescission law. In short, it’s disruptive to enact partisan trims to the current year’s spending while the two parties ...
(The Center Square) – With U.S. House members out for their August recess, senators are scrambling to advance at least some of the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund federal agencies in fiscal ...
Republican Senator Susan Collins blasted President Donald Trump’s attempt to claw back nearly $5 billion in foreign aid so close to the end of the budget year as unlawful. On Thursday night, the ...
Congress must also work to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for health insurance. I am in favor of an extension of the ...
In meetings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the only thing that Democrats and Republicans agreed on was that a federal government shutdown was inevitable. For agencies and programs that depend on ...
Some Republican and Democratic lawmakers have called President Donald Trump’s attempt to use a “pocket rescission” illegal. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, as well as ...
WASHINGTON -- It has become a habit for Congress to face the threat of a government shutdown every September, and U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., is sick of it. Members of the Senate and House of ...
The new book begins with a concise overview of federal spending and taxes and provides an up-to-date, nonpartisan, plain English explanation of the process the governs the $6 trillion federal budget.” ...
Overhead view of members of the House Appropriations Committee sitting at several long tables with papers and water bottles as they convene to discuss appropriations bills. On Sept. 10, the House ...
Congress is barreling towards the first full-government shutdown in roughly seven years as existing levels of government funding expire at midnight tonight, Sept. 30. On Sept. 19, prior to breaking ...
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