Gov. Jan Brewer and the Legislature's top Republican leaders announced Friday that they have reached a deal on a state budget for next year that holds...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 04.02.2012
With the economy just barely on a path to durable recovery, some very dumb fiscal chickens are coming home to roost on January 1 of next year. This grim coincidence is known as the Triple Witching Hour.
Posted 03.15.2012
By David Lawder WASHINGTON--Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed back on Wednesday against suggestions that their drive for ...
Posted 03.14.2012
By David Lawder WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are ready to break a hard-fought budge...
Robert Creamer | Posted 01.21.2012
The inability of the super committee to reach an agreement is not a reflection on the "intransigence" of both sides and "unwillingness" to compromise. The far right wants changes in the American social contract that will destroy the middle class.
Robert Creamer | Posted 12.25.2011
It is far better for everyday Americans if the so-called Super Committee fails entirely to get a deal. The overarching reason is simple.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 12.20.2011
The Republican Party may revere Ronald Reagan, but they definitely wouldn't recognize each other if they met at a tax policy conference today. Nor would the gipper last for long on the Republicans side of the deficit-reduction super committee.
The Washington Post | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 12.05.2011
On Capitol Hill, they are the apocalypse caucus. Twenty lawmakers, from both parties, who calculate that the best way to fix government is to act as i...
AP | Posted 11.02.2011
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The White House told Congress on Thursday there's a need for more than $5 billion in additional di...
AP | SUSAN HAIGH | Posted 10.18.2011
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut's unionized state employees overwhelmingly ratified a labor savings and concessions agreement Thursday in a second...
Shan Wells | Posted 10.10.2011
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.09.2011
With the markets in turmoil and the global financial architecture groaning under the weight of fraud and corruption, it's a good time to think about what leadership should look like. Believe it or not, we have had good leadership, purpose, integrity and aligned interests in the past.
Robert Reich | Posted 10.05.2011
Now that we're slouching toward a double-dip recession, the only hope is voters will tell their members of Congress to stop obsessing about future budget deficits and get to work on the real crisis of unemployment, falling wages, and no growth.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.04.2011
I'm still trying to dig up the quote. I know it was President Obama, and I know it was at least a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure I can picture...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.02.2011
The GDP assumptions -- on which the deficit deal is based -- are grossly inflated. Growth slowed to 1.8 percent in the first quarter and 1.3 percent in the second quarter, and it heading toward zero. CBO had predicted 3.1 percent growth for the year.
Mark Penn | Posted 10.02.2011
The 11th hour budget deal may save the country from default but is unlikely to save either the president or the Republicans from continued political fallout for taking the country near the brink of financial calamity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.01.2011
Today we're watching the end of a brief manufactured crisis and the beginning of a long national nightmare. There's nothing to celebrate unless you're either an economic right-winger or very wealthy -- or both.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.25.2011
You made commitments to your constituents, and they made commitments to their constituents. You promised to do X, and they promised, in many cases, to do Not-X. Now what?
Posted 09.24.2011
(Walter Brandimarte) - The United States took a step closer to losing its coveted triple-A credit rating over the weekend as a political impasse i...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 09.13.2011
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) tried to make a bipartisan budget deal with President Obama. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stabbed Boe...
Paul Tullis | Posted 09.11.2011
Distaste for raising taxes, claiming that it limits growth, simply isn't borne by the facts. It's time for the Democrats to fight back on this point and show the facts. The alternative is dangerous, regressive, and unfair.
The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 09.02.2011
Chris Christie probably won't be invited to this lawmaker's 4th of July barbecue. New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney slammed the governor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 08.09.2011
"I saw an interview with a woman who said, 'My husband and I planned it perfectly. We are going to run out of money for our family budget right on May...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who represents the Senate GOP in White House debt talks, said on Tuesday that a bipartisan group of lawmakers...
AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- The big spending bill passed into law with much fanfare last month will cut the deficit by $122 billion over the next decade – les...
The Republic | Mary Jo Pitzl | Posted 04.28.2012