Tag: Budgets and Deficits

A woman is reflected in a Coca-Cola store window display as she drinks a Coke in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Coke and Pepsi are spending millions of dollars to oppose proposed new taxes on sugared drinks in California. Pepsico reported higher earnings Thursday, except in Mexico, where they blamed a drop in sales volume on a new tax on non-nutritional food and drinks. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s junk food taxes hitting Pepsi, Coke

Candice Choi · October 9, 2014 7:49 pm

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Export-Import Bank sent $675 million to the Treasury in fiscal 2014

Joseph Lawler · October 9, 2014 7:22 pm

President Barack Obama attends a meeting with senior military leadership including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: Congress should ‘work with us’ to avoid sequestration cuts to defense

Charles Hoskinson · October 8, 2014 11:06 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., penned a letter to John Boehner, asking the Ohio Republican to block risk corridor spending by the Obama administration in the government funding bill that lawmakers are expected to debate after the November election. (AP/Chuck Burton)

GOP wants to block Obamacare payments

Susan Ferrechio · October 8, 2014 5:34 pm

Packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP/David Goldman)

Delayed upgrades cost Postal Service

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 4:40 pm

President Lyndon Johnson speaks during a televised address from the White House, Jan. 31, 1966. (AP/Marty Lederhandler)

The right and wrong approach on poverty

John Stossel · October 8, 2014 3:47 pm

The federal $486 billion in fiscal year 2014, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Wednesday, the lowest total budget shortfall since 2008. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Deficit drops below historical average

Joseph Lawler · October 8, 2014 3:01 pm

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Taxpayers spend $157m for union work

Sean Higgins · October 7, 2014 7:28 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2013 file photo, Ripan Bhowmik looks at cameras while shopping at Best Buy in Overland Park, Kan. Americans are expected to spend at the highest rate in three years during what's traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, the National Retail Federation said Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Holiday sales seen rising 4.1 percent

Anne D'innocenzio · October 7, 2014 7:06 pm

Maine PUC warns of soaring energy costs

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2014 10:05 am

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, center, stands on the deck of a Washington state ferry with Lynn Peterson, left, Washington state Secretary of Transportation, and Lynne Griffith, second from left, assistant secretary for the Washington State Ferries Division, as they ride between Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Wash., Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Foxx was in town at the invitation of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to learn more about Washington's ferry system and the need for both state and federal funding. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Patty Murray presses for federal ferry support

Martha Bellisle · October 7, 2014 2:38 am

Reports show huge cash advantage for Jerry Brown

Juliet Williams · October 7, 2014 1:13 am