Budget

President Trump, like so many rich people, is stupid about money. (This is well-documented.) Another example of his r…

On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed the very necessary Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting Bill, which will…

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Despite her grievous incompetence and lack of experience, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education. In…

According to internal agency documents obtained by the Washington Post, the US Secret Service has requested an…

Donald Trump’s proposed budget will defund PBS and anything else that gives the U.S. even the thinest veneer of …

The White House sends out a daily newsletter—aptly called the “Daily 1600"—meant to serve as a kind of “The Skimm,”…

President Donald Trump, a charred burlap sack filled with bugs, presented his administration’s new budget proposal…

On Thursday, the Trump administration offered up a historically draconian budget proposal that is also—surprise,…

The Trump administration is preparing to release its budget for the 2018 fiscal year and, if it passes as proposed,…

Renting a car from Budget starts at only $17 for a weekend day! And yet I’m still scratching my head as to what the…

Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin was among the most progressive members of the US House of Representatives during her…

Now that Mitt Romney has nominated Wisconsin Republican Congressman/deficit hawk/ grown up Eddie Munster Paul Ryan…

There's no money for frivolities like education and public health when we have expensive explodable toys to think…

This morning, an amendment proposed by Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum and one of her Republican colleagues,…

A new wave of Republican lawmakers barged into office after the 2010 elections on promises of fiscal responsibility…

You know how every time a Republican politician says or does something mindblowingly stupid or offensive, we shake…

Now that the Twilight Wedding of the Century is out in theaters and we have fed ourselves on its succulent romantic…

The federal dealmaking forbidding DC Medicaid from using its own money for abortions went into effect yesterday, but …