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Budget Battles

  • Sequester, Part II, Gives Obama Control of the Budget

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    Congress appears to be sliding inexorably towards a second year of sequestration after months of political gridlock in which the two parties could not agree on a basic budget for the coming year, let...

  • Snowden Still Stuck in Russian Limbo

    By Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters

    Edward Snowden is still stuck at the international travel area of Moscow’s airport. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the NSA leaker is moving closer to meeting conditions for asylum.

  • Why the Senate Standoff Made Harry Reid Go Nuclear

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Stuck on a path of mutually assured gridlock, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave his Republican colleagues today an ultimatum on filibustering presidential nominees.

  • Why It’s Time to Talk to Our New ‘Iranian Friends’

    By Patrick Smith

    It is exactly a month since Iranians went to the polls in very high numbers and elected Hassan Rouhani their new president, and already most of the pundits and scribblers are wrong. Those elections...

  • Less Than 80 Days for Obamacare Exchanges

    By David Morgan, Reuters

    With time running out, U.S. officials are struggling to cope with the task of launching the new online health insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's signature health reforms by...