By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
It’s time to end this shutdown once and for all, and it’s time to end the fiction that Americans want or need a wall at our border.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
It’s day 33 of the shutdown. An announcement Wednesday by House Democrats offered yet another possible solution to the ongoing government shutdown battle over the president’s demand for $5 billion for a border wall.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Congress has the power to make things right, but it would take a bipartisan stand against the president.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
What would it look like if a president proposed spending just $5.7 billion out of the whole $1 trillion budget to solve a few real crises: health insurance, climate change, retirement savings, and student debt?
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security
President Trump has said that he will veto any bill that doesn’t give him the $5 billion he has demanded for his border wall.
By
Ashik Siddique
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
A national security commission calls for annual increases of 3-5% in the Department of Defense budget—that could result in military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit. If you don’t know where $700 billion is going, why would you know where $1 trillion is going?
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Health Care,
Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.