Fiscal Policy

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said, "I think financing federal fiscal spending by tapping the resources of the Federal Reserve sets a bad precedent and impinges on the independence of the central bank. It weakens fiscal discipline." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yellen bashes highway bill for using Fed money

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2015 4:41 pm

Republican presidential candidate Sen. RandÂ Paul was asked to respond to speculations that he may not survive until the nominating contest in Iowa.Â (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Here’s how Paul plans to stand out in the next GOP debate

Gabby Morrongiello · October 21, 2015 7:08 pm

President Obama speaks to business leaders at the quarterly meeting of the Business Roundtable in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, to renew his calls for increased spending in infrastructure, education and scientific research. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama calls on executives to lobby GOP against shutdown

Joseph Lawler · September 16, 2015 5:26 pm

Which side is winning the shutdown war?

Susan Crabtree · September 14, 2015 4:01 am

A pensioner reads a newspaper on September 8, 2014 in Walsall, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Social Security disability program to go bust in 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 5:43 pm

"We can't wait until this fall," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "This matter has to be resolved now." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Dems demand budget summit with GOP

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

As the Cato Institute put it: "George Pataki started out as a tax-cutting, small-government governor. He ended up as a big spender seemingly hell-bent on overturning anything good he had done in his first term." (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Pataki candidacy revives media talk of the mythical ‘social moderate/fiscal conservative’

Timothy P. Carney · May 29, 2015 3:04 pm

The $500 billion threshold would leave out regional banks like SunTrust, which has about $190 billion in assets, according to Federal Reserve data. (Getty)

Fight looms over how big a bank is

Joseph Lawler · May 16, 2015 9:00 am

Cost of earmarks rising despite congressional ‘moratorium’

Beltway Confidential

Cost of earmarks rising despite congressional ‘moratorium’

Jason Russell · May 13, 2015 1:00 pm

"This announcement is a very big deal," White House adviser Brian Deese told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo)Â

Obama adviser to GOP: Cut a deal to avoid an unwinnable government shutdown

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2015 3:41 pm

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Senate Republicans introduce 10-year balanced-budget plan

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2015 6:30 pm

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew attends a joint press conference with Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Timer set on debt ceiling showdown

Joseph Lawler · March 14, 2015 9:00 am