Tag: Budgets and Deficits

House Republicans are pressing ahead with a slashing plan to try to balance the budget within 10 years, relying on big decreases in health care programs for the middle class and the poor, as well as tax hikes and Medicare cuts engineered by President Barack Obama. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

House GOP plan seeks health cuts to balance budget

Andrew Taylor · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

On "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., responded to former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's criticism of his new budget proposal as a "joke."ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Paul Ryan urges Sarah Palin to look at the details of his latest budget

Charlie Spiering · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

DCCC chair Steve Israel: Paul Ryan’s budget will be ‘defining issue’ in midterms

Rebecca Berg · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to cut about half of the city's pension debt would raise property taxes while increasing the amount of money city workers contribute to their retirement. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Chicago mayor reaches tentative pension deal

Associated Press · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is set to release a spending plan Tuesday that Republican leaders say would balance the budget in 10 years. (AP Photo)

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Paul Ryan to release budget as Democrats plan attack ads

Charles Hoskinson · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., took the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to urge the Republican Party to become the "party of ideas," concerned less with "burn[ing] heretics" and more with winning converts. (AP Photo)

White House: Paul Ryan budget would ‘stack the deck’ against middle class

Meghashyam Mali · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

Paul Ryan, while appearing Wednesday on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" radio show, complained about a "tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work." (AP Photo)

Paul Ryan proposes balanced budget plan that reforms entitlements, tax code

Susan Ferrechio · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

The Republican budget released Tuesday morning by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan includes projections that count on added revenue from faster economic growth -- a method often referred to as "dynamic" scoring. (AP/Eric Gay)

Paul Ryan-authored budget counts on faster economic growth to achieve balance

Joseph Lawler · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Paul Ryan doesn’t rock the boat with 2015 budget

Philip Klein · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, from left, Alan Palazzolo, Andrew Dahl, Bill Bushey and Jake Dalton collaborate on analyzing government data at the monthly meetup of Open Twin Cities in Minneapolis. About a dozen people attended to event at the University of Minnesota. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Curtis Gilbert)

Plan would put Minneapolis city data on Internet

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2014 4:00 am

Greg Abbott shifts to schools in Texas governor’s race

Associated Press · March 31, 2014 12:00 am

Education, immigrant groups to debate tuition bill

Education, immigrant groups to debate tuition bill

Associated Press · March 31, 2014 12:00 am