Budgets and Deficits

A permanent fix to prevent doctors from losing a chunk of their Medicare payments has yet to emerge from Congress. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Healthcare

Murky path to permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’

March 13, 2015 9:00 am

The argument is meant to build momentum for tax reform. (iStock Photo)

Business

Business faults tax code for rising foreign takeovers of U.S. companies

Joseph Lawler -

March 13, 2015 9:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Social Security robs the poor to pay the rich

Jason Russell -

March 12, 2015 9:35 pm

President Obama's proposed fiscal 2016 budget would reduce deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Economy

Obama budget would reduce deficits by $1.2 trillion: Budget office

Joseph Lawler -

March 12, 2015 5:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Senate Republicans blame Obama for Social Security crisis

Jason Russell -

March 12, 2015 5:01 pm

The AFL-CIO headquarters is shown in Washington, DC, 01 August 2005. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Economy

Labor seeks to make pro-trade Dems a liability for party

Sean Higgins -

March 12, 2015 9:00 am

A pair of new streetcars sit parked at the bottom of Hopscotch Bridge near Union Station, Sunday, April 27, 2014 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

D.C. official talks sense

Michael Barone -

March 11, 2015 11:16 pm

Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, speaks during the U.S. Export-Import Bank annual conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 4, 2013. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

If the Export-Import Bank pretends to be a small-business agency, does it become one?

Timothy P. Carney -

March 11, 2015 10:14 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, right, accompanied by fellow committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2015, to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Prospects dim for defense spending

Tara Copp -

March 11, 2015 9:40 pm

President Barack Obama takes the stage to speak at Georgia Tech, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in Atlanta. More than 40 million Americans are in debt thanks to their education, and most of their loans come from Uncle Sam. So President Barack Obama is aiming to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student debt with a presidential memorandum he signed Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Economy

Obama tries to ease complexity of paying off student loans

Joseph Lawler -

March 11, 2015 9:00 am

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Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Murky path to permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’

Business faults tax code for rising foreign takeovers of U.S. companies

Obama budget would reduce deficits by $1.2 trillion: Budget office

Labor seeks to make pro-trade Dems a liability for party

D.C. official talks sense

If the Export-Import Bank pretends to be a small-business agency, does it become one?

Prospects dim for defense spending

Obama tries to ease complexity of paying off student loans

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