GOP factions pressure Ryan on budget
House conservatives and defense hawks are both pressuring the leaders of budget negotiations, who are trying to line up enough support for a deal to pass the House next week. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)...
View ArticleDem, Tea Party members team up to help unemployed find work
Legislation to help the long-term unemployed is attracting some interesting alliances. A California Democrat has teamed up with a House Tea Party Republican to craft a bill that would provide vouchers...
View ArticleConservative lawmaker accuses former Biden economist of Marxism
A conservative lawmaker is accusing a former economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden of being a Marxist.Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) sent out a press release Wednesday claiming that Jared...
View ArticleRepublicans: GOP leaders ‘deceived’ us
House Republican leaders got an earful in two separate private meetings Wednesday from conservatives fuming over their move last week to pass a Medicare payment fix without a full House vote.The...
View ArticleDems explain votes for Obama budget
The two Democrats who voted for President Obama’s budget on Wednesday said they wanted to show support for the administration's policy priorities.Democratic leaders whipped against Obama’s budget,...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT FINANCE: R&D tax credit up in the House
THURSDAY'S BIG STORY:Next up for the House: R&D. The House is scheduled to consider on Thursday a permanent extension of the popular credit for business research and development.GOP leaders and tax...
View ArticleA model to fend off Tea Party attack?
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View ArticleTea Party critics will hold noses, vote for Boehner as Speaker
brightcove.createExperiences(); No one rose up to challenge House Speaker John Boehner this fall. Now, even his staunchest GOP critics say they’ll end up voting Thursday...
View ArticleThe 17 Republicans who voted against the GOP budget
A mixture of centrists and conservative hard-liners voted against final passage of the House GOP budget resolution Wednesday.Seventeen House Republicans defected from their party on final passage,...
View ArticleLawmaker pushes DHS for timeline in improving employee satisfaction
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) pressed an official at the Department of Homeland Security for a timeline on when the agency will improve its employee satisfaction scores.The agency came in last in a 2015...
View ArticleTrump needs Mick Mulvaney to lead the White House budget office
My former boss Ronald Reagan used to say, “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” Over the past month, President-elect Donald Trump has proven to live by this mantra. While...
View ArticleTrump says growing economy will cover cost of budget proposals
President Trump said Tuesday that a growing economy will help pay for his proposal to hike military spending.The president said he believes that the $54 billion proposed boost to Pentagon spending will...
View ArticleUsing short-term data to justify spending cuts is dangerous
When White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s proposed deep cuts to social programs, the words “evidence” and “results” came up repeatedly....
View ArticleWait until working-class voters realize they've been betrayed by Trump...
Trump proposed his first budget as president this week, calling it “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” A more appropriate title would be “Death by $3.6 Trillion Cuts.”By most analyses, Trump’s...
View ArticleRequiem for the budget wonk? Not if we can help it
It’s been a big week for the Congressional Budget Office. On Monday, the New York Times profiled Keith Hall, the agency’s director of the last two years and detailed his frustration amid mounting...
View ArticleMnuchin wants ‘clean debt-ceiling’ bill
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a House panel on Thursday he wants a clean debt-ceiling bill, appearing to settle a dispute within the White House over the administration’s strategy.Mnuchin told...
View ArticleMulvaney: It's White House policy Senate keeps focus on healthcare
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that it’s official White House policy that nothing else gets a vote in Congress before healthcare."Yes," it's official policy that the Senate stay...
View ArticleThe debt ceiling is the best bad option we've got right now
Follow politics for any time at all, and you’re bound to be familiar with debt limit battles. Every few months, Congress has spent so much money that the obligatory limit on its debt must be raised,...
View ArticleBlame both Democrats and Republicans if we go broke
The president has his debt ceiling increase and there is talk that he may endorse a permanent repeal of the debt ceiling. That sets the stage for a grand bargain in which the president and Republicans...
View ArticleTrump budget chief defends move to cut key ObamaCare payments
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Friday defended President Trump's move to to end key payments to insurers selling ObamaCare plans, which critics slammed as a sabotage of the health-care...
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