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Budget Battles

  • It’s Almost Real: Over the Cliff and Into Recession

    By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

    Fasten your seat belts, folks. House Speaker John Boehner hit the accelerator and is driving us over the fiscal cliff. But several members of Boehner’s own caucus balked, based on their opposition in...

  • US on the Edge of the ‘Cliff’ as Christmas Nears

    By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, Reuters

    Top U.S. lawmakers voiced rising fear on Sunday that the country would go over "the fiscal cliff" in nine days, triggering harsh spending cuts and tax hikes, and some Republicans charged that was...

  • Will the GOP Survive the Party’s Split on Taxes?

    By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, Reuters

    The main thing that has held Republicans together philosophically is the belief in holding down taxes. Not one of them in Congress has voted for a significant increase in more than two decades. Now...

  • Obama Suggests Short-Term Deal to Avert Cliff

    By David Lawder and Roberta Rampton, Reuters

    The White House on Friday tried to rescue stalled talks on a fiscal crisis after a Republican plan imploded in Congress, but there was little headway as lawmakers and President Barack Obama abandoned...

  • Boehner Says Cliff Fix Hangs on Dems and Obama

    By Ed Okeefe and Rosalind Helderman, The Washington Post

    House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) sought to shift responsibility Friday to President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate to reach an agreement to avert a series of spending cuts and tax...