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Budget Battles

  • Immigration, Guns, Budget: Will They Ever Cut a Deal??

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    Conventional wisdom says Congress and the White House are reveling in a rebirth of bipartisanship that could mean major breakthroughs this spring on immigration reform and gun control and the...

  • 5 Medicare Changes Buried in Obama’s Budget

    By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News

    President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other...

  • How Rubio Became a Force in Immigration Reform

    By David Nakamura, The Washington Post

    In many ways the Senate's "Gang of Eight" negotiations on immigration reform, behind the scenes and in public, have hinged on a party of one. Marco Rubio, the tea party favorite whose parents...

  • Gay Rights Groups Push Obama on New Measures

    By Jeff Mason, Reuters

    President Barack Obama may have made a slow start on gay rights issues, but by the end of his first term his record was such that a news magazine dubbed him the nation's "first gay president." Now...

  • Millions in Tax Dollars End Up in Taliban Hands

    By David Francis

    A federal audit has determined that the United States has paid some $5 million to contractors in Afghanistan that have ties to the Taliban.