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Budget Battles

  • IRS’s Lerner Placed on Paid Administrative Leave

    By Ed Okeefe and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

    The Internal Revenue Service official responsible for the office that targeted certain organizations seeking tax-exempt status was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday, making her the second...

  • Sebelius Defends another Administration Misstep

    By Eric Pianin

    HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius arguably has become the most controversial and politically radioactive Obama cabinet members next to Attorney General Eric Holder. Now she is coming under fire from...

  • Obama Begins to Dismantle $1 Trillion War Machine

    By David Francis

    President Obama outlined a plan on Thursday to scale back the massive war machine created in the last decade, making clear that large wars are a thing of the past and focusing on the use of drones...

  • Apple’s Global Tax Shelter Days May Be Numbered

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    On Tuesday, Apple CEO Timothy Cook testified before the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on his company’s aggressive tax avoidance strategy . Predictably, Republicans demanded that the U...

  • Obama Sets New Terms for Terror Fight, Drone Use

    By Scott Wilson and Greg Miller, The Washington Post

    President Obama outlined the future of his counterterrorism polices Thursday in a wide-ranging speech that sought to more clearly define the American enemy, make lethal government actions more...