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The president’s budget request includes $1.1 trillion in discretionary funds. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Winners and Losers in the Trump Budget in One Chart

By Randy Leonard
Posted February 13, 2018 at 11:12am
Copies of President Donald Trump’’s 2019 budget request are unpacked by House Budget Committee staff on Monday. Experts say it won’t end Washington’s decade of ‘crisis budgeting.’ (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

‘Crisis Budgeting’ Likely Ahead Despite White House Claim

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 13, 2018 at 5:05am
Aerial view of the Pentagon building photographed on Sept. 24, 2017. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Budget Proposal Funds Latest Pentagon Strategy

By Patrick Kelley
Posted February 12, 2018 at 2:45pm
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., right, and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., conduct a news conference in the Capitol to introduce an authorization for use of military force (AUMF) against ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban in May 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The Other Memo Lawmakers Want the Public to See — But Trump Doesn’t

By Griffin Connolly
Posted February 9, 2018 at 9:49am
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced legislation to prevent a military parade as proposed by President Donald Trump. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Cardin and Schneider Introduce Bills to Block Trump’s Military Parade

By Eric Garcia
Posted February 9, 2018 at 9:18am
Storm clouds pass over the dome of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 23, 2018. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump Signs Spending Package, Ending Short Shutdown

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 9, 2018 at 8:49am
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees on July 14, 2017, in Paris. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images file photo)

Abuse Charges, Military Parade Put White House on Defensive

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 7, 2018 at 3:11pm
 Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., said the idea of a military parade is “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Democrats Rain on Trump’s Military Parade

By Eric Garcia
Posted February 7, 2018 at 10:47am
Defense Secretary James Mattis says the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review were crafted on the “assumption that timely and efficient funding” would be delivered to the Pentagon. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Mattis Lists Budget Priorities, Warns Against Another Stopgap

By Patrick Kelley
Posted February 7, 2018 at 5:00am
U.S troops march down Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Élysées during the traditional Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2017. (Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images file photo)

No Arc de Trump (Yet), but Perhaps a French-Inspired Military Parade

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 6, 2018 at 7:57pm