Budgets and Deficits

Failure to come to an agreement on a continuing resolution has led to the current government shutdown, even as another epic battle looms over another increase in debt ceiling.

Columnists

Congress and the president must get serious about debt crisis

Veronique de Rugy -

October 4, 2013 4:00 am

Economy

Fiscal crisis economic dashboard: More fear creeping into markets

Joseph Lawler -

October 4, 2013 4:00 am

News

Obama, Dems mock GOP lawmaker’s budget remark to Washington Examiner

Donna Cassata -

October 3, 2013 6:30 pm

Washington Secrets

Team Hillary Clinton blames GOP for park closings

Paul Bedard -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Workers pump water from the parking lot of the Dadeland Plaza shopping center Thursday after heavy rains in Pinecrest, Fla., a suburb of Miami. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Politics

Furloughed FEMA workers recalled to deal with Tropical Storm Karen

Meghashyam Mali -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has suggested that the chamber's Republican leaders are in no hurry to let the partial government shutdown end in a move designed to gain bargaining leverage on deals to fund federal agencies and increase the nation's borrowing limit.ÃÂ (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Politics

Nancy Pelosi ‘concerned’ Republicans plotting to link Obamacare with debt limit increase

Sean Lengell -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Congress earlier in the week that he has taken the final measures available to him to create headroom under the statutory debt limit, and that by Oct. 17, he will have only cash on hand and incoming revenues to meet the government's obligations on any given day. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Economy

Treasury warns that a default could scar the economy for a generation

Joseph Lawler -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Government agencies may have furloughed employees and blocked access to public sites, but they haven't stopped spending money. (AP Photo)

Politics

Shutdown or no shutdown, government agencies keep spending

Ethan Barton -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction, which specializes in asphalt manufacturing, concrete paving, and roadway reconstruction, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Politics

Obama presses John Boehner to ‘call a vote’ to end shutdown

Brian Hughes -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

House Democrats' budget chief, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, approached moderate Republican Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and a few other lawmakers outside the House chamber to discuss joining forces against Republican conservatives who are using the budget fight to derail Obamacare. (AP Image)

House Democrats reach out to moderate Republicans on shutdown

Rebecca Berg -

October 3, 2013 4:00 am

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Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Congress and the president must get serious about debt crisis

Fiscal crisis economic dashboard: More fear creeping into markets

Obama, Dems mock GOP lawmaker’s budget remark to Washington Examiner

Team Hillary Clinton blames GOP for park closings

Furloughed FEMA workers recalled to deal with Tropical Storm Karen

Nancy Pelosi ‘concerned’ Republicans plotting to link Obamacare with debt limit increase

Treasury warns that a default could scar the economy for a generation

Shutdown or no shutdown, government agencies keep spending

Obama presses John Boehner to ‘call a vote’ to end shutdown

House Democrats reach out to moderate Republicans on shutdown

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