Tag: Budgets and Deficits

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Energy and Environment

White House budget draws battle lines on climate, clean energy

Zack Colman · February 2, 2015 5:38 pm

Teacher Diana Feke helps Mason Baker, 5, during lunch at the Eastham Community Center Claskamas County Children's Commission Head Start Monday, April 9, 2012, in Oregon City, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Beltway Confidential

Obama wants to expand failing Head Start program

Jason Russell · February 2, 2015 5:34 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, led the criticism of the president's annual spending blueprint, which calls for hiking takes for the more affluent in order to fund tax breaks for lower income earners and new programs like a $60 billion plan to offer free community college. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP: President’s plan ‘nonstarter with Congress’

Susan Ferrechio · February 2, 2015 5:25 pm

Obama says his $4 trillion budget is ‘smarter’ than sequestration

Obama says his $4 trillion budget is ‘smarter’ than sequestration

Brian Hughes · February 2, 2015 5:23 pm

A Congressional staffer carries a copy of President Obama's new fiscal 2016 $4 trillion budget plan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 02, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Obama proposes boosting spending by $1 trillion, raising tax revenue by $3 trillion

Philip Klein · February 2, 2015 5:17 pm

National Security

Budget cuts Afghanistan forces to 5,500

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 5:10 pm

Obama submits $4 trillion budget request to Congress

Obama submits $4 trillion budget request to Congress

Joseph Lawler · February 2, 2015 5:10 pm

President Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama shows why GOP shouldn’t trade tax hikes for spending cuts

Washington Examiner · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Freshman Rep. Martha McSally was already known for her groundbreaking career as the Air Force's first female combat pilot before she squeaked her way into Congress on her third try in last year's midterm elections. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Rep. Martha McSally: ‘We’ve got a more dangerous world than I’ve seen in my whole lifetime’

Charles Hoskinson · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

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A radical view of defense budget cuts

Douglas Feith · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Cost figures related to closing Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota are shown before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission voted to save the base. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why Congress doesn’t want another BRAC round

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

President Obama has badly damaged his populist push for tax increases, just as he releases a budget Monday meant to wage a fight with Republicans over the best blueprint for helping the middle class. (Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)

White House blunders undercut Obama’s tax-increase demands

Brian Hughes · February 2, 2015 10:00 am