Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Flashback: Jeff Sessions calls on Jeffrey Zients to resign if he can’t back up budget number

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Flashback: Jeff Sessions calls on Jeffrey Zients to resign if he can’t back up budget number

Conn Carroll · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 06: U.S. National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers meet with Chinese Communist Party's Central Organization Department Minister Li Yuanchao at the Great Hall of the People on September 6, 2010 in Beijing, China. Summers plans to visit China from September 5 to 8. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

Larry who? Most Americans in the dark about possible Fed pick Summers

Brian Hughes · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama's campaign for using military force is a good reminder that both major political parties should put aside domestic politics and properly support Americaâs troops by ending the military budget cuts under sequestration. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Examiner Editorial: Time to reload American military power

Examiner Editorial · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has drawn criticism, but not concerning his aptitude as an economist. (Getty Images File)

White House denies report Larry Summers is Fed choice

Brian Hughes · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Jeffrey Zients. The White House on Friday said that Jeffrey Zients, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, would replace top economic adviser Gene Sperling in January. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Jeffrey Zients to replace Gene Sperling as Obama economic adviser

Brian Hughes · September 13, 2013 4:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks during news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, after meeting with congressional leaders of both parties to discuss the budget. Boehner said he will insist on curbing spending in a fight over the debt limit. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP leaders confounded on stopgap spending bill

Andrew Taylor · September 12, 2013 8:56 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, file photo, members of Congress walk down the steps of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Treasury reports on the budget deficit for August on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

US budget deficit shrinks 35 pct. from last year

Christopher Rugaber · September 12, 2013 6:40 pm

President Barack Obama awaits the start of a meeting with members of his cabinet, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, the president, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama looks to pivot to domestic issues after Syria debate

Brian Hughes · September 12, 2013 4:00 am

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., delayed a vote planned for Thursday on a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution, or CR, that would have funded the government until Dec. 15. (Getty Images)

House GOP seeks alternative budget bill that funds government, but not Obamacare

Susan Ferrechio · September 12, 2013 4:00 am

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., on Wednesday suddenly cancelled a Thursday vote on a stopgap funding bill that would have funded the government beyond the Sept. 30 expiration of the current fiscal year, through Dec. 15. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Pressure from Senate GOP and conservative groups helps block House spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · September 11, 2013 4:00 am

Syrian demonstrators carry an image of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a protest against US military action in Syria, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in front of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Syria fight came at just the right time for Obama

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · September 11, 2013 4:00 am

Goldman Sachs: Effects of the sequester now showing up in the data

Joseph Lawler · September 11, 2013 4:00 am