Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama shows why GOP shouldn’t trade tax hikes for spending cuts

Washington Examiner · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Freshman Rep. Martha McSally was already known for her groundbreaking career as the Air Force's first female combat pilot before she squeaked her way into Congress on her third try in last year's midterm elections. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Rep. Martha McSally: ‘We’ve got a more dangerous world than I’ve seen in my whole lifetime’

Charles Hoskinson · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

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A radical view of defense budget cuts

Douglas Feith · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Cost figures related to closing Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota are shown before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission voted to save the base. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why Congress doesn’t want another BRAC round

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

President Obama has badly damaged his populist push for tax increases, just as he releases a budget Monday meant to wage a fight with Republicans over the best blueprint for helping the middle class. (Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)

White House blunders undercut Obama’s tax-increase demands

Brian Hughes · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

The flight line behind U. S. Navy Captain Greg McWherter's Blue Angels jet erupts in flames during a pyrotechnics display in a simulated attack by an A-10 Thunderbolt during the Guardians of Freedom Airshow at the Lincoln Air Park. (AP/FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journa, Lincoln Journal Star)

Funding a balanced force

Christopher Preble · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Feds place 150 union pension funds in ‘critical’ status

Sean Higgins · February 1, 2015 1:35 pm

In this March 4, 2014 file photo, copies of President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2015 budget are set out for distribution on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

All seven of Obama’s budgets have proposed tax hikes

Jason Russell · February 1, 2015 10:00 am

National Security

It’s Groundhog Day for the defense budget

Tara Copp · February 1, 2015 10:00 am

Billions in subsidies help NFL rake in profits

Kelly Cohen · January 31, 2015 7:12 pm

President Obama and Elana Simon, 19, a student at Harvard University who met with the president at last year's White House Science Fair, arrive in East Room in the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, where the president spoke about the move away from one-size-fits-all-medicine, toward an approach that tailors treatment to your genes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: U.S. does best ‘when everyone gets their fair shot’

Kelly Cohen · January 31, 2015 12:50 pm

Paul’s Fed audit would strike what Yellen most wants to protect

Joseph Lawler · January 31, 2015 10:00 am