Fiscal and Economic News from
Around the Nation

February 2018

Source: CNBC
Feb 12, 2018
Trump Budget Calls for 2% Reductions in Discretionary Spending after 2019
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Source: Associated Press
Feb 12, 2018
Trump Budget Plan Already Outdated After Budget Deal
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Source: Morningstar
Feb 11, 2018
Trump's Budget Proposal Projects Big Jump in Deficits
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Source: POLITICO
Feb 11, 2018
Trump Launches $1.5 Trillion Sales Pitch
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Source: The Washington Post
Feb 11, 2018
In Big Reversal, New Trump Budget will Give Up on Longtime Republican Goal of Eliminating Deficit
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Source: The Washington Post
Feb 9, 2018
Brief Government Shutdown Ends as Trump Signs Spending Bill
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Source: The Washington Post
Feb 8, 2018
12 of the Most Important Things in Congress’s Massive Spending Deal
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Feb 8, 2018
New Budget Deal Adds More Stimulus — and Debt — to an Overextended American Economy
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Source: The Washington Post
Feb 8, 2018
House Leaders Scramble to Win Support for Budget Deal ahead of Midnight Deadline
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Source: Reuters
Feb 8, 2018
Congress to Vote on Long-term Budget Deal, Averting Shutdown
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Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Feb 7, 2018
Senate Strikes Budget Deal Increasing Spending by $400 Billion for Two Years
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Source: New York Times
Feb 7, 2018
Senate Leaders Reach Budget Deal to Raise Spending Over Two Years
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Source: CNBC
Feb 6, 2018
Market Tumble Throws Fed Rate Hike Schedule into Question
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Source: Associated Press
Feb 6, 2018
House Republicans Working on Averting Another Shutdown
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Source: Federal News Radio
Feb 5, 2018
Trump Military Agenda Could Cost Nearly $700B Extra over 10 Years
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Source: CNN
Feb 5, 2018
House Republicans Prepare to Vote on Short-term Spending Bill to Keep Government Open
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Source: Roll Call
Feb 5, 2018
House GOP Plan Likely to Set Up Funding Bill Volley with Senate
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Source: The Hill
Feb 5, 2018
Congress Returns with Just Days to Avoid Shutdown
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Source: Washington Post
Feb 1, 2018
Congress Barrels Toward Spending Deadline with No Deal in Sight
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Source: CNBC
Feb 1, 2018
Republicans and the White House are Reportedly Discussing a Gas Tax Hike to Fund Infrastructure Plan
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Source: Roll Call
Feb 1, 2018
GOP Leaders Confident There Won’t Be a Second Shutdown
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January 2018

Source: Bloomberg
Jan 31, 2018
U.S. Raises Longer-Term Debt Sales as Budget Deficit Worsens
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Source: New York Times
Jan 30, 2018
As Deficit Soars Toward $1 Trillion, Congress Shrugs and Keeps Spending
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Source: Roll Call
Jan 30, 2018
Why the House Is Voting on Defense Funding a Third Time
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Source: Bloomberg Politics
Jan 29, 2018
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Hits Early Roadblock Over Funding
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