White House

Budget Battles

  • Angry Voters to Obama: Stop the Ticking Debt Bomb

    By Liz Peek

    Democrats have had a fun month watching Republicans blow themselves to smithereens. The Oval Office must have erupted in high-fives after Newt Gingrich took South Carolina . For President Obama,...

  • Romney Clobbers Gingrich in Florida Blood Feud

    By Eric Pianin

    Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney savored a solid victory over archrival Newt Gingrich in the Florida GOP primary Tuesday.

  • Another Trillion Dollar Deficit Bummer

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the federal deficit will top $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year in 2012, but rapidly shrink in the coming years under one condition – that...

  • Obama Wants Small Biz Tax Breaks

    By ALLISTER BULL and LAURA MacINNIS, Reuters

    U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to revive a plan to give small businesses tax breaks and help start-up firms, ideas he proposed over the last year and which will feature in his 2013...

  • 7 Positive Ways to Secure Our Economic Future

    By Mark Thoma

    President Obama’s State of the Union address was largely devoted to explaining the administration’s plans to provide a more secure economic future. As president Obama made clear is his speech and in...