Tag: budgets

Trump should avoid another government shutdown

January 29, 2019

President Donald Trump learned over the past month a valuable Washington lesson that old-timers like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

GOP controls Congress but Dems win budget fights

March 24, 2018

Under President Barack Obama and a GOP-controlled Congress, Capitol Hill Democrats had to scratch and claw for months to get tiny increases for domestic programs

Congress pushes Christmas compromises

December 16, 2015

Congressional leaders are girded to push a Christmas compromise on tax cuts and spending through the House and Senate by week’s end after Republicans and