Ryan Budget Plan

On Mother's Day, Let's Honor the Mothers in Our Families

Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 05.11.2012

Rep. Joe Baca

This Mother's Day finds Medicare, a program that is vital to the health and well-being of mothers and grandmothers everywhere, under attack.

How Long Can Republicans Keep Up Mythical Economics?

Ben Cohen | Posted 04.05.2012

Ben Cohen

For 30 years, Republicans have espoused an economic theory that has wreaked havoc on America's poor, funneled wealth upwards at an unprecedented rate and brought the economy to the brink of destruction.

Sam Stein

Paul Ryan Budget Includes $49 Billion More In 2012 Revenue Than Barack Obama's

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2012

WASHINGTON -- The budget outline introduced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday would witness a massive reduction in tax ...

Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Trillions for the Rich, Pain for Everyone Else

Algernon Austin | Posted 06.15.2011

Algernon Austin

Ryan's budget plan proposes $4.3 trillion in cuts to programs for the needy with one hand and then gives $4.2 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy with the other.

Elise Foley

Cantor: GOP Will Use Debt Ceiling Vote As ˜'Leverage Moment' To Demand Spending Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.10.2011

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans will demand major concessions before agreeing to raise the nation's debt ceiling, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) sa...

Jason Linkins

Potential 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates Embrace Ryan Budget Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2011

David Brooks, naturally, is a big fan of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget. He is thundering from his New York Times column that Ryan's "proposal will set the standard of seriousness for anybody who wants to play in this discussion." I'd say that he'd like my "0.8 percent unemployment plus everyone in the top one percent of income earners gets a free Pegasus" plan even more, but the Congressional Budget Office has refused to score it, saying, "Who the hell are you and how did you get in the building?"