White House

Budget Battles

  • Senate Negotiation on Shutdown Ends in Stalemate

    By PAUL KANE and LORI MONTGOMERY, The Washington Post

    Senate leaders began negotiations Saturday aimed at reopening federal agencies and avoiding a government default after every other effort to end Congress’s impasse crumbled in the previous 48 hours...

  • Obama Recruits Big Business to End Showdown

    By Jia Lynn Yang and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post

    The White House has enlisted the business community to pressure GOP lawmakers to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, forging an unlikely alliance with traditionally Republican-leaning...

  • No Deal Yet: Obama Rejected the GOP's 6-week Proposal

    By LORI MONTGOMERY and ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN and WILLIAM BRANIGIN, The Washington Post

    President Obama is rejecting a key element of House Republicans’ latest proposal to extend the federal debt ceiling, opposing a linkage between a short-term increase and negotiations on the budget,...

  • Down to the Wire: Will There Be a Deal This Weekend?

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The state of the government shutdown (and possible default) is in limbo, as pessimism began to give way on Friday to that rare combination of hope and uncertainty . After weeks of a tense showdown,...

  • Jack Welch: U.S. President Has Too Much Power

    By Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC

    The president has become too powerful relative to Congress, former General Electric boss Jack Welch told CNBC on Friday, as optimism increased for a debt ceiling extension and an agreement to end the...