Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s past State of the Union proposals cost billions

Jason Russell · January 20, 2015 5:34 pm

National Security

INFOGRAPHIC: Evolution of Obama’s defense plans

Tara Copp · January 20, 2015 5:30 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, wants to know why the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to delay customer service and refunds during tax filing season despite "wasteful and unnecessary spending" on union activity and bonuses. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Tax reform effort is real, says top Republican lawmaker

Joseph Lawler · January 20, 2015 3:20 pm

President Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 28, 2014. (AP/Larry Downing)

Beltway Confidential

Obama has proposed tax hikes in every State of the Union

Jason Russell · January 19, 2015 5:57 pm

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Why infrastructure matters: Rotten roads, bum economy

robert-puentes · January 19, 2015 10:00 am

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Have Republicans learned nothing?

Jason Pye · January 19, 2015 10:00 am

Congress and the Pentagon have been at odds for years over how to handle military benefits as defense spending tightens â but that may change once a commission studying the issue makes its recommendations by the end of this month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Military pay moves to the front lines

Charles Hoskinson · January 19, 2015 10:00 am

In the face of irrelevance, Obama buys attention with other people’s money

Washington Examiner · January 19, 2015 10:00 am

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who will oversee an effort to reform the tax code as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the proposal would hinder economic expansion and job growth and would shrink savings. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

No GOP praise for Obama’s tax proposal

Susan Ferrechio · January 18, 2015 8:59 pm

The death tax could surge nearly 50 percent under President Obama's plan. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Norquist: Obama’s plan imposes ‘a second death tax’

Paul Bedard · January 18, 2015 3:29 pm

US Postal Service letter carrier Juan Padilla arranges mail in his truck while on his delivery route on Dec. 5, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty images)

Senate Democrats want Keystone XL bill to ban postal cuts

Susan Ferrechio · January 17, 2015 7:39 pm

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Obama unchains CPI in new budget proposal

Susan Ferrechio · January 16, 2015 7:11 pm