Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Obama juggles Ukraine, Netanyahu visit before unveiling budget

Susan Crabtree · March 3, 2014 12:00 am

California governor unsure legal pot is good plan

Associated Press · March 3, 2014 12:00 am

Gov. Scott Walker says he is open to making tweaks to his property and income tax cut plan, in Madison, Wis. Senate Republicans are discussing possible changes to the tax cuts, while the Assembly is moving ahead with a vote on Walker's proposal as introduced. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin Senate to vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s tax cut

Associated Press · March 1, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this April 8, 2013, file photo, printed copies of President Barack Obama's proposed budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for binding at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, Monday, April 8, 2013. Six years into his presidency, Obama is unveiling a budget on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, for fiscal year 2015 that for once does not herald a partisan legislative showdown. There's no push to overhaul health care as he did in 2009, no drive as in 2010 to restrict Wall Street, or to increase taxes as in 2011 and 2012, or to halt automatic spending cuts as in 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

For Obama, an election-year budget without drama

Associated Press, Jim Kuhnhenn · March 1, 2014 5:00 am

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For ships of state, public pensions are a looming iceberg

Steve Chapman · March 1, 2014 5:00 am

Copies of President Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington on April 8. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

With elections looming and debt rising, Senate Democrats won’t put out fiscal 2015 budget

Joel Gehrke · February 28, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama will ask Congress to approve spending more than $5 billion on medical training to turn out some 13,000 primary care providers over the next 10 years. (AP image)

Obama seeks more federal spending to train doctors

Associated Press · February 27, 2014 1:48 pm

When Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, unveiled his 182-page summary for revising the tax code on Wednesday, it marked the beginning, the high point and the end of the issue for the current Congress. (AP image)

Tax overhaul bill headed for the shelf

David Espo · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

The president's budget is scheduled to come out next week. We can expect more of the same: more spending, more class warfare tax proposals and no real commitment to reform entitlement spending. (AP Photo)

Expect more questions than answers when Obama gets around to releasing a budget

Veronique de Rugy · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

A freeway sign in Los Angeles advises motorists to save water because of the state's severe drought.

Energy and Environment

California legislature passes $687 million drought plan

Associated Press · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks at the National Organizing Summit in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama to call for $300 billion in spending on infrastructure projects

Brian Hughes · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Florida Gov. Rick Scott outlines his education budget recommendations Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 during a stop in Delray Beach, Fla. He wants more money for public schools in the coming year, but he's not asking for as big of an increase as he did last year. The Republican governor wants state legislators to boost spending on public schools by $542 million. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

For Rick Scott it’s about tax cuts and budget in 2014

Washington Examiner · February 26, 2014 5:00 am