Tag: Budgets and Deficits

If Obama is given an Obamacare repeal bill that ditches the most unpopular parts of the law but leaves in place the assistance programs, it becomes politically more difficult for him to veto it. (AP Photo)

Republicans pave path to Obamacare repeal

Paige Winfield Cunningham · October 22, 2015 4:01 am

The developers have found three problems with the ejection seat, all of which have proposed solutions. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

National Security

Fix for F-35 ejection seat problems could take another year

Jacqueline Klimas · October 21, 2015 8:51 pm

"We're incarcerating the wrong people. And were measuring the wrong things,"Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy saidÂ during the group's official launch. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Police chiefs unite to reduce incarceration

Kelly Cohen · October 21, 2015 6:11 pm

The last three decades have seen a five-fold increase in America's prison population, to 2.3 million.Â (Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Law enforcement group latest to back criminal justice reform

Daniel Allott · October 21, 2015 5:51 pm

The White House said President Obama would veto a House bill on the floor Wednesday that would grant the Treasury limited borrowing authority if the federal government hits the debt ceiling. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Obama would veto partial debt ceiling hike

Nicole Duran · October 21, 2015 4:13 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the inability of Congress to fund his department on a long-term basis is 'embarrassing.'Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Defense secretary: Budget drama ’embarrassing’

Pete Kasperowicz · October 21, 2015 11:52 am

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has told Congress that lawmakers have only until Nov. 3, less than two weeks, to raise the federal debt ceiling before he runs out of options for managing the debt.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Here’s how the debt ceiling crunch will play out

Joseph Lawler · October 21, 2015 4:01 am

The White House has refused to support the legislation unless Republicans agree to negotiate on lifting all sequestration caps and ending the now five-year-old budget impasse. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama has 10 days to veto the defense bill

Charles Hoskinson · October 20, 2015 4:48 pm

In a letter Monday to House leadership, 102 Republicans led by Mike Turner of Ohio, a House Armed Services subcommittee chairman, said the $561 billion in Pentagon spending requested by President Obama is the minimum they will accept.Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

102 GOP lawmakers threaten to vote against defense bill

Charles Hoskinson · October 19, 2015 7:55 pm

Jeb BushÂ plans toÂ use all the powers of the presidencyÂ to disrupt theÂ political culture of a dysfunctional Washington, D.C. (AP file photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jeb Bush: As president, I’ll end crony capitalism

Jeb Bush · October 19, 2015 4:01 am

Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said theÂ Default Protection Act "guarantees the sovereign debt of the United States government will be paid in full and on time, under any circumstances, even total political gridlock." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

GOP plots debt ceiling contingency plans

Susan Ferrechio · October 18, 2015 4:01 am

"Bold action is needed to address our nation's debt crisis -- our national debt currently stands at $18.4 trillion," saidÂ Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Paul shows how he’ll cut $207b in spending, balance budget

Daniel Chaitin · October 17, 2015 4:40 pm