Gop Spending Cuts

Mitt Romney is running not as a fiscal hawk but as a fiscal unicorn -- fluttering around, making magical things happen, in a world that doesn't exist.

The Minnesota GOP's new Chairman, Pat Shortridge, has proposed a revolutionary solution to solving the party's disastrous debt problem.

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press (AP) WASHINGTON -- Congress is once again allowing shutdown politics to bring the federal government to the bri...

If major job-creating legislation is passed, and millions of jobs are indeed created, the right-wing economic catechism that government spending and counter-cyclical deficit spending do not work will be vanquished.

WASHINGTON — The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise between President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a histori...

Cutting student loans is like raising taxes on students. Cutting Social Security is like raising taxes on the elderly. Cutting Medicare is like raising taxes on the poor. And yes, closing loopholes is like raising taxes on hedge fund managers.

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner held dueling prime time addresses to the nation and even disagreed on whether there was a stalemate over the debt ceiling. That is the problem in a nutshell.

WASHINGTON -- Freshman House Republicans are skeptical of striking another compromise with the Democratic-controlled White House to raise the debt cei...

Before we start taking proposals like Paul Ryan's radical plan to cut the deficit by cutting spending seriously, shouldn't we start with considering h...

This week brought a slew of April Fools' jokes from our media brethren. Hulu remade its page to look like it was 1996 -- ancient history in Internet terms. Google introduced "Gmail motion," a tool that allows users to send emails by using their body. YouTube offered the top 5 viral videos of 1911. And we had a little fun of our own. There were also a number of stories that felt like April Fools' jokes but, unfortunately, were all too real. There was Donald Trump doubling down on Birther-ism, releasing his birth certificate and calling for the president to release his; pastor/kook Terry Jones finally burning a Quran and igniting violent protests in Afghanistan that led to the killing of a dozen people, including seven UN workers. And there was our nation's capital -- a town full of true April fools -- still obsessed with spending cuts in the midst of a recession.

In the past year, California has experienced the worst whopping cough outbreak in more than 50 years, an epidemic that has killed 10 infants and resul...

WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill began Monday to come out against a measure to keep the government running for three more w...

WASHINGTON -- Minutes before lawmakers and Vice President Joseph Biden met to discuss a funding measure to keep the government operational through the...

WASHINGTON — Easy for them to say: Cut spending, no matter what. Don't let the government borrow any more. Shut it down if you have to. While th...

A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set...

In nine days, the federal government could shut down unless Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement on a spending bill for the rest of the ye...

If President Obama and congressional Republicans do not reach an agreement on how to fund the final seven months of the fiscal year, some military vet...

House Republicans called for cuts in hundreds of programs across the face of government Friday night in a $61 billion savings package toughened at the...

WASHINGTON — The Republican drive to cut spending, which begins in earnest this week, marks a political gamble that the public's hunger for smal...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans say they want to cut federal spending by raiding $45 billion from President Barack Obama's politically un...

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans made their latest in a series of symbolic gestures on Monday evening by moving forward with a two-page resolution to ...

WASHINGTON — Low-income students may get smaller grants and the newly disabled might have to wait longer for their benefits. And just about ever...

Newly elected Republican governors are preparing to wrestle with huge budget gaps in states already struggling with foreclosures and high joblessness....

WASHINGTON — For a guy who insists that federal bureaucrats make too much money, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sure doesn't mind ha...

WASHINGTON — The spending barons on Capitol Hill, long used to muscling past opponents of bills larded with pet projects, are seeking one last v...