Careful What You Wish For
This small village of low-slung houses and squeaky swing sets in western Ohio's farm country has already laid off its part-time police officer and dec...
This small village of low-slung houses and squeaky swing sets in western Ohio's farm country has already laid off its part-time police officer and dec...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has no qualms about running as a third party candidate, telling HuffPost in a recent int...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 02.13.2012
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday voted against changing the Constitution to require a balanced budget as Congress hit yet another dead end i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican push for a balanced budget amendment that would force massive spending cuts to the country's social safety net die...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 01.18.2012
WASHINGTON — Rejecting the idea Congress can't control its spending impulses, the House turned back a Republican proposal Friday to amend the Co...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 01.17.2012
WASHINGTON — With the federal government racking up deficits of more than $1 trillion a year and lawmakers paralyzed by political differences, t...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.13.2011
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama talked about jobs legislation in a 10-minute phone call Thursday, the Ohio Re...
AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- As a "supercommittee" tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be pressing a far more ambitious goal:...
David Paul | Posted 10.15.2011
One week after the downgrade of the United States bond rating, the markets have returned a verdict of sorts.
Lawrence Wittner | Posted 10.08.2011
By scrapping plans for nuclear weapons "modernization" and for national missile defense, programs that are both useless and provocative, the United States would save $271 billion.
The New York Times | Simon Johnson | Posted 10.02.2011
Some House and Senate Republicans have pushed hard to include a “balanced budget” constitutional amendment as part of any agreement on a debt ceil...
David Paul | Posted 09.30.2011
As the denouement approaches, and a resolution to the debt crisis appears to be at hand, one has to ask how many of the participants continue to believe that a default on U.S. Treasury obligations was ever at risk.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 09.29.2011
WASHINGTON — He calls himself Sen. Tea Party. That almost says it all about Sen. Jim DeMint's role on the nation's political scene in these ner...
Keith Harrington | Posted 09.23.2011
"We need to balance the budget in order to grow the economy." In the midst of the federal budget debt ceiling food fight, this may be one of the only ideas both political parties can more or less agree on.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2011
WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Speaker John Boehner declared Friday that the House has "done its job" toward resolving the impasse over raisin...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.21.2011
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to make major cuts in federa...
AP | THOMAS BEAUMONT | Posted 09.20.2011
NORWALK, Iowa — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann promised Wednesday that she would submit only balanced budgets if elected nex...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans easily passed their "Cut, Cap and Balance" fiscal plan on Tuesday, a proposal that boosts their standing among Tea Par...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.18.2011
Just humor them, we're advised. Let them mount their little theater piece -- "Cut, Cap and Balance" is the title of the current version. Let them take their symbolic vote and hold their symbolic news conference.
Posted 09.16.2011
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican plan to avert a looming U.S. default is a fierce statement of conservative principles that...
Posted 08.24.2011
Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a warning to fellow Republicans in Congress: If you vote to raise the debt ceiling without massive spending cuts, y...
Grant Cardone | Posted 08.01.2011
While the US national debt is exploding to historic levels, it is not the problem that the media or politicos makes it out to be. The US debt situatio...
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of laying blame, we invited our employees to the negotiating table. In the end, working with labor, we reached an agreement that is a win-win-win for taxpayers, for employers, and for LA.
Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011
"Balancing the budget" and "deficit reduction" have become code for shifting the benefits of government spending to corporations away from workers.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
While they talk about cutting so-called entitlement programs in Washington, the American people have completely different priorities. Their first step to balancing the budget? Raise taxes on the rich.
latimes.com | Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.04.2012