White House Budget

WATCH LIVE: HuffPost Q&A With White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Huffington Post sat down with White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer Tuesday for a live video discussion on the major topi...

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Carney: Backers of Paul Ryan's Budget Have 'Severely Diminished Capacity'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday blasted the House Republican budget proposal unveiled this week and said that anyone...

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White House Budget Proposal Threatens Cuts to Critical Coastal and Marine Programs

Sarah Chasis | Posted 04.17.2012

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Toxic chemicals, oil, and waste contaminate our beaches and coastal waters, hurting the tourism industry and creating dead zones like that in the Gulf of Mexico, which covered an area the size of New Jersey in 2010.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.10.2012

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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 03.24.2012

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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