White House

Budget Battles

  • Battle of the Tax Plans: Obama vs. Romney

    By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama took a preemptive swipe at one of his likely 2012 opponents, Mitt Romney, by releasing a plan to overhaul the U.S. corporate tax code on the same day as Romney is introducing his own...

  • GOP Pummels Obama Over Spiking Gas Prices

    By Eric Pianin

    or a while, it looked as if President Obama had gotten past the worst of the economic crisis and was enjoying renewed public approval, but now he is scrambling to respond to Republican charges that...

  • Obama May Cut Top Corp. Tax Rate

    By Kim Dixon, Reuters

    The Obama administration on Wednesday will propose cutting the top tax rate for corporations to 28 percent, and pay for it by eliminating dozens of tax loopholes companies now use to lower their...

  • Santorum's Surge: It's All in the Family Values

    By Liz Peek

    Mitt Romney backers are beside themselves. They cannot imagine how the former Massachusetts governor is within a whisker of losing the GOP nomination to Rick Santorum . His supporters see Romney –...

  • As Santorum Gains in Michigan, Romney Takes Aim

    By Steve Holland, Reuters

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney trained fire at Rick Santorum on Monday as he opened a crucial week of campaigning looking to claw back ground lost to his surprise rival.