President

Budget Battles

  • Election 2012: Do Candidates Have a Foreign Policy?

    By Patrick Smith

    This has to be the most inward-gazing presidential election in nearly half a century. True, voters are focused on domestic problems: the health care system , joblessness, the fiscal deficit, the...

  • The One Simple Measure That Would Save Social Security

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Social Security already appears to be running aground, just two decades before the program — which accounts for about 20 percent of federal spending — is projected to crash into insolvency.

  • Conservative Super PACs Outraised Liberals 3-to-1

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Conservative groups and the Republican candidates they support continue to be the big winners from a surge in independent campaign contributions unleashed by the 2010 Citizens United decision, a new...

  • Fiscal Cliff: Defense Cuts Threaten a Brain Drain

    By David Lawder, Reuters

    The uncertainty over automatic cuts in U.S. defense spending to be triggered in January because of congressional inaction has spread to the engineers and project managers in South Florida's aerospace...

  • Ryan Takes Personal Approach on Medicare

    By FELICIA SONMEZ, The Washington Post

    In a speech that appeared intended to quell doubts among seniors about his proposal to overhaul Medicare, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a deeply personal approach Saturday morning in...