The 30-second Web video has the edgy quality of a campaign-season attack ad, including ominous music, grainy photos and a closing demand: “It’s time for new leadership.” But the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government’s projected deficits over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan ... Read more
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government’s projected deficits over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has slashed its projections of the current-year fiscal deficit because of bigger-than-expected tax receipts and payments from Fannie Mae and ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Ask around the White House and the Capitol, and you will quickly find reasons to doubt that Republicans will compromise with President Obama on a budget deal that includes more tax increases ... Read more
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan K. Simpson and Erskine B. Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that is a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. ... Read more
The United States government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April, the largest in five years and a sign of the nation’s improving finances. Steady economic growth and higher tax rates ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The nation’s unemployment rate would probably be nearly a point lower, roughly 6.5 percent, and economic growth almost two points higher this year if Washington had not cut spending and ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, aggressively pushed back Tuesday against a Heritage Foundation report that estimated new immigration legislation would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion ... Read more
Facing the task of cutting 142 children from the Head Start program in Colorado Springs this fall, the teachers and administrators there came up with a creative response: Have the children paint and decorate ... Read more