President Obama's budget has some more details--however slight--on the Chief Performance Officer's office and how it will work. Apparently:...
Reuters | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's budget includes hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues from a greenhouse gas emissions trading system, an administration...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Rosy's back. The famed Rosy Scenario, coined in the early days of the Reagan White House when large tax cuts and higher defense spending were assumed...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation would get funds to boost the ranks of agents investigating mortgage fraud, under a budget blueprint unveiled by th...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher ta...
Washington Post | Lori Montgomery and Ceci Connolly | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, ...
New York Times | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
For his first annual budget next week, President Obama has banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush used to make deficit projecti...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
A little-known rule in the Senate may dramatically change the balance of power between the parties during the upcoming budgetary process.
washingtonpost.com | Lori Montgomery | Posted 03.04.2009 | Home
It's the holy grail of Washington politics: a federal budget that generates ample funds through a simpler and fairer tax code, defuses the spending ti...
Monica Youn | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
The Bush Administration's DOT succeeded in knocking a sizeable hole in Illinois' ban on pay-to-play deals that the state Senate had attempted to pass in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal.
CNN Political Ticker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce his selection for the role of "chief performance officer," a newly created position that will ...
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
Many American have no idea how long the country has been running deficits and they may not have all the numbers at their fingertips, but the general drift has not escaped them.
Michael Pento | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
Americans must hope that the Obama administration is honest with the people and makes some difficult choices early in his tenure to deal with our growing annual deficits and long term debt.
Mark Miller | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business
President-elect Obama made clear during the campaign that he flat-out opposes privatization of any kind, and the Congress won't go there, either. So, what type of solution will emerge?
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
Adam Lerrick, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon, heavily criticized Obama's economic policy and tax plan, claiming "The economic tides will not stand while Washington experiments with European-type social democracy."
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business
Is William Beach trying to derail the stimulus train?
Kim Mance | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
No Senator McCain -- a government spending freeze of "everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs" is not OK.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business
Ten trillion is an almost unimaginable number -- so colossal that the National Debt Clock in Times Square, for example, didn't even have room for that many digits. On Sept. 30, they had to squeeze the "1" and the dollar sign into the same box.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business
So what does this mean for Senator McCain, Senator Obama and the rest of us? Even before the financial crisis, both candidates were offering plans that were fiscally doubtful, to say the least.
Bob Greenstein | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business
New government estimates show that the federal government will be in a big hole in fiscal 2009 -- a $546 billion deficit. They also help show how we got into this hole -- and the answer may surprise you.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
Rather than facing a $200 billion deficit to do something really important, the U.S. is now heading toward a whopping $10 trillion dollar debt.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
We've spent the last 8 years not making tough choices that need to be made. Now we have two presidential hopefuls who would continue that trend.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
"I've never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today." General Richard Cody, Army Vice Chief of Staff TIME, April 14, 2008 Let me see ...
Bryan D. Jones and Walter Williams | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
The Bush presidency will go down as providing by far the poorest quality of governance in the modern period of big government, pushing the federal government toward fiscal insolvency.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The government's budget deficit will surge past a half-trillion dollars next year, according to gloomy new estimates, a record floo...
National Journal | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics