Outside the Beltway

A recurring farce that does real damage.

He has nominated only 304 people out 1,200+ that require Senate confirmation.

The seemingly unremarkable event hadn’t happened in four decades.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

A report outlining steps for re-opening the economy in the wake of COVID-19 has been leaked to the press.

This is no way to run a railroad.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

There are better ways to use surplus Pell funds.

With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.

Is it possible that the solution to the government shutdown is letting the President pretend he got funding for his border wall even though he didn’t?

Christmas is behind us, but don’t expect any progress when it comes to the government shutdown, which is in its fifth day.

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.

The Trump Administration is seeking to overhaul the food stamps program.

Friday’s eight-hour shutdown was not the non-event it seemed from the outside.

Economic growth in the first quarter wasn’t as bad as first estimated, but it still wasn’t very good. And the future is unclear at best.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

We may have to deal with the debt ceiling again before the November elections.

More pay for play at the White House?

Despite previous denials, the White House did in fact intervene in the approval process for a loan to Solyndra.

The “how to pay for it” part of the President’s jobs plan seems destined to be rejected by the GOP. Which may be exactly what the President wants.

The main issue, above all else, is taxes.

The American people have no idea what’s really in the Federal Budget, which makes any discussion about what to cut virtually impossible.

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.

Peter Orszag, President Obama’s first budget director, is headed to Citigroup and a multimillion dollar salary.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appears to be quietly putting together the beginnings of a campaign for President of the United States. Don’t count him out by any means.