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Budget Battles

  • Pelosi Plays the Gender Card in ‘Cliff’ Negotiations

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    In announcing her plans to continue leading the Democrats in the House, Nancy Pelosi s stressed an unusual but critical and easily overlooked political force in resolving the fiscal cliff: gender...

  • Obama Should Tap a Wall St. Ace to Replace Geithner

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Wanted: One good man, or woman, to serve as the Obama Administration’s next Secretary of the Treasury. Like the presidency itself, the position likely will have scores of candidates eager and willing...

  • Scandal Complicates Obama's Plan to Reshape Cabinet

    By Reuters

    A week after winning a second term, President Barack Obama faces a widening scandal within his national security team that complicates plans to reshape his Cabinet and could reverberate through...

  • Tax Hikes Worthless Without Entitlement Reform

    By Liz Peek

    Just this week Americans received another warning shot across the bow: in October the federal deficit for one month rose to $120 billion , higher than expected, up from $98 billion a year ago. Simply...

  • October Budget Deficit of $120B Tops Forecast

    By Reuters

    The budget deficit rose in October, the first month of fiscal year 2013, as looming negotiations over expiring tax cuts and imminent spending reductions dominated the post-election political...