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Use-it or lose-it: DoD dropped $4.6 million on crab and lobster, and $9,000 on a chair in last-minute spending spree

The federal government found a way to spend $97 billion in a single month last year, of which more than $61 billion can be attributed to the Pentagon.

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago

No shutdown at VA: Congress passes department’s budget on time

Thursday's House vote marks on the second time in the last nine years that Congress has finished its VA budget work on time.

By Leo Shane III

5 years ago

Budget battle brews as Trump threatens another shutdown

President Donald Trump has warned Congress that he will never sign another foot-tall, $1 trillion-plus government-wide spending bill like the one he did in March. His message to lawmakers in both parties: Get your act together before the next budget lands on my desk.

5 years ago

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