White House Budget

White House Proposes Tax The Rich, Chop Medicare, In Election-Year Budget

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.10.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The White House will propose deep cuts and modest tax hikes Monday in a budget that aims to stick to last summer's debt deal by trimming...

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Obama Delaying Release Of 2013 Budget

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that it's delaying for one week the release of President Barack Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year...

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Are We a Society?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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The current U.S. budget confrontation raises the issue of whether we are a society, a community, or a collection of individuals inhabiting the same geographical space.

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Obama Offers First Budget Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

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Republicans Respond To Obama Budget: 'It Would Be Better To Pass Nothing'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Republicans bashed the president's budget proposal on Monday, calling it a punt down the road for the nation's deficit and criticizing O...

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White House To 'Rebalance' Relationship Between Government And Contractors

Federal Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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The White House's 2011 budget proposal will "rebalance" the relationship between the government and its contractors through more oversight and insourc...

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Obama's Budget, Jobs Plan Faces Early Tests In Congress

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget outline drew bipartisan fire on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with Republicans complaining...

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What The White House Could Learn From A Bronx Soda Fountain Owner

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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Since when did we decide that parents have to be there for every school outing?

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White House Abstinence Funding May Be Provided After All

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Although President Obama cut funding for abstinence-only sex education from his new budget, a White House official said Tuesday that some programs cou...

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The President's 2010 Budget: A Transition to New Priorities

David Beckmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Overall, this budget shows the president's intention to include hungry and poor people in the economic recovery of our country and the world.

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White House Pushes Back On Budget Attack By Citing George H.W. Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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The White House is pushing back against criticism that its cooking the books on its budget by overestimating the costs of drawing down the war in Iraq...

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Official: Bush's 2009 Budget to Be Tight

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal heal...

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