Tag: Budgets and Deficits

In this Sept. 30, 2014, photo, Dana Ripley, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, fills the gas tank of his truck at a service station in Andover, Massachusetts.

Ballot question targets indexing of gas tax

Bob Salsberg · October 12, 2014 3:32 pm

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, accompanied by IMFC Chair and Singapore's Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, speaks during a news conference at the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Global finance leaders pledge bold efforts

MARTIN CRUTSINGERHARRY DUNPHY · October 11, 2014 11:44 pm

The Democratic National Committee is poised to transfer as much as $3 million each to the party's House and Senate campaign committees. (iStock Photo)

DNC set to spend big cash for congressional candidates

Sean Lengell · October 11, 2014 5:15 pm

Most of the $41 billion in annual federal highway spending is not adequately tracked by the Federal Highway Administration, a new report from the Government Accountability Office found. (iStock Photo)

Lax reporting makes $41 billion in federal highway spending tough to track

Mark Flatten · October 11, 2014 9:00 am

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Pentagon lacks proper documentation of fair prices on $70 billion in contracts

Mark Tapscott · October 10, 2014 6:00 pm

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Friday that the rapid spread of Ebola in Africa now requires U.S. intervention, but he won't back the mission indefinitely. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Senate Republican lifts hold on funding for Ebola mission

Susan Ferrechio · October 10, 2014 3:30 pm

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GOP won’t be celebrating the lower deficit

Joseph Lawler · October 10, 2014 9:00 am

A woman is reflected in a Coca-Cola store window display as she drinks a Coke in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Coke and Pepsi are spending millions of dollars to oppose proposed new taxes on sugared drinks in California. Pepsico reported higher earnings Thursday, except in Mexico, where they blamed a drop in sales volume on a new tax on non-nutritional food and drinks. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s junk food taxes hitting Pepsi, Coke

Candice Choi · October 9, 2014 7:49 pm

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Export-Import Bank sent $675 million to the Treasury in fiscal 2014

Joseph Lawler · October 9, 2014 7:22 pm

President Barack Obama attends a meeting with senior military leadership including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: Congress should ‘work with us’ to avoid sequestration cuts to defense

Charles Hoskinson · October 8, 2014 11:06 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., penned a letter to John Boehner, asking the Ohio Republican to block risk corridor spending by the Obama administration in the government funding bill that lawmakers are expected to debate after the November election. (AP/Chuck Burton)

GOP wants to block Obamacare payments

Susan Ferrechio · October 8, 2014 5:34 pm

Packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP/David Goldman)

Delayed upgrades cost Postal Service

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 4:40 pm