Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump is talking about a tax cut that appears to exist only in his own mind.

Bernie Sanders could find repeating the success of 2016 in 2020 may not be so easy.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The National Debt has passed $21,000,000,000,000 for the first time in history just as the nation begins its return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

Whoops.

The Treasury Department has designated five entities and 19 individuals tied to the Russian government for cyber espionage.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.

President Trump continues to make irresponsible and dangerous threats in connection with American policy toward North Korea.

President Trump has announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, but they are unlikely to work given the unrealistic nature of the Administration’s current policy toward North Korea.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

In addition to deadlines on the Federal Budget and DACA, Congress also has to deal with the debt ceiling at some point in the next month.

Attempts to pre-pay property taxes lead to confusion and frustration.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Perhaps it’s time to consider getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely.

Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin’s trip to Kentucky that ‘just happened’ to coincide with last month’s eclipse is being investigated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General.

Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.