Tag: Budgets and Deficits

President Obama used a speech at a liberal think tank in Washington to declare that he will focus all of his administration's efforts in his remaining three-plus years in office to reducing inequality in America. (AP/ Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Obama: Reducing inequality will be focus of ‘rest of my presidency’

Byron York · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said a short-term measure that funds the government at the GOP's $967 billion rate, instead of a $1.058 trillion level pushed by many Democrats, would shortchange federal agencies.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Steny Hoyer won’t support short-term government spending bills

Sean Lengell · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Mike Phillips, and other union protesters, supporters, and labor leaders boo Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in protest saying he is betraying the Democratic party's tradition of supporting working men and women. (AP/Seth Perlman)

Illinois lawmakers convening special session on pensions

Kerry Lester · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

A B-25 bomber lands at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. (AP/Mark Duncan)

Ohio military base looking to privatize utilities

Associated Press · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

This Oct. 24, 2012 file photo shows an empty field north of Detroit's downtown. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit to get crucial ruling in bankruptcy case

Ed White · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Pope Francis taps into US political struggle over ‘trickle-down’ economics

Pope Francis taps into US political struggle over ‘trickle-down’ economics

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

The Manhattan U.S. attorney says continuing budget cuts and hiring freezes in the justice system may force his office to make difficult decisions about which cases to pursue.

Manhattan prosecutor says budget cuts will hurt

Associated Press · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An aerial view of the Utah Data Center is seen in this photo from April 18, 2013.

National Security

Utah town gave NSA a deal on water

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

In a Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 photo, federal judge Loretta Preska poses for a portrait in her chambers at Manhattan federal court, in New York. Preska said the caseload for judges in Manhattan has grown more than 10 percent in the last three years while staffing to support them has decreased 28 percent. Continuing cuts to the federal judiciary budget have left the courts feeling unloved. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Wall Street Journal: U.S. attorney, chief judge decry budget cuts

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Service Employees International Union members rally in the capitol rotunda before a Senate hearing on pension legislation at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. (AP/Seth Perlman)

Unions target Illinois Democrats in pension reform battle

Kerry Lester · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. MaxÃÂ Baucus, D-Mont.ÃÂ (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

How Max Baucus’s ‘tax reform’ can hurt competition and kill business creation

Timothy P. Carney · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Although Amazon has agreed to collect taxes in some states as it sets up distribution centers around the country, it has resisted efforts by others to impose sales taxes unilaterally. (AP File)

Amazon rejected by Supreme Court on New York sales tax

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2013 5:00 am