White House

Budget Battles

  • Obama Uses Combative New Tone

    By Peter Wallsten and Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post

    President Obama belittled congressional Republicans for taking vacations amid difficult deficit-reduction talks. He contrasted lawmakers with his young daughters. And he brushed off criticism of his...

  • Obama Chastises GOP over Taxes, Debt Deadlock

    By Eric Pianin and Michelle Hirsch

    A tough-talking President Obama put Republicans on notice at a White House news conference that any long term deficit reduction package must include increased revenues as well as spending cuts to...

  • Obama Enters Budget Talks

    By PAUL KANE and ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN, The Washington Post

    Obama entered debt talks with Senate leaders, hoping that face-to-face talks could set the stage for detailed negotiations seeking more than $2 trillion in federal savings in exchange for continued...

  • Obama's Clean Energy Trip Raises Questions

    By CAROL D. LEONNIG and JOE STEPHENS and ALICE CRITES, The Washington Post

    With trips that began two months after he took office, President Obama has devoted more than half of his out-of-town private-business visits to promoting a single industry: clean technology, which...

  • Kissinger’s Skilled Eye on China, Then and Now

    By Patrick Smith

    Nearing age 90 now, Henry Kissinger has set down in a new book his extraordinary challenge four decades ago, when he brought together Mao Tse-tung, the giant of the peasant revolution, with the...