Modest deal would reverse some automatic spending cuts and could end cycle of brinkmanship
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Good Economic News Week Gives Obama White House Something To Cheer
After weeks of stumbles, the administration got several pieces of good economic news, suggesting 2014 may be better for the White House than 2013 has been.
Shutdown Crisis: Heading Towards an October Showdown
With October 1 quickly approaching, arguments from both sides are heating up
Obama to Congress: ‘Knock it Off’ on Budget Brinkmanship
Calls out GOP ‘grandstanding’
Three Days From a Shutdown, the Senate Can’t Even Vote About a Vote
An arcane procedure holds up voting for another day
President Obama’s Elusive Budgetary Goal of ‘Fiscal Responsibility’
President Obama has never released a “fiscally responsible” budget.
A Big Ideas Campaign, With Few Specifics On a Key Issue
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Since picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has pledged repeatedly to wage a campaign of ideas. But the specifics have so far been hard to come by.
What the Ryan Pick Means for Religion and the Romney Campaign
When Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his running made on Saturday, he clearly differentiated his fiscal policy from that of President Obama — but his choice of Ryan also said something important about how the candidate views the …
The Ryan Budget: A Primer on What’s Now the Hottest Topic in 2012
To anyone who ever complained that politics wasn’t substantive, buckle up: the 2012 Presidential campaign just became a debate about that most substantive of all issues, the federal budget. The signature issue of Mitt Romney’s …
Political Pictures of the Week, Feb. 11-17
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The Proposed 2013 Defense Budget: ‘Shaving the Balloon’
The Obama Administration came to a fork in the road this year on military spending: given the financial pressures facing the nation, it could have fundamentally set U.S. defense policy on a new path. Or it could have kept pretty much everything and just sucked it in as it tightened its belt. It has elected to do the latter, and that’s …
White House Budget as Political Manifesto: Obama’s $3.8 Trillion Plan for American Revival
With a divided Congress still standing at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the annual White House budget isn’t a policy proposal destined for markup in the subcommittee rooms of the Capitol. It’s a statement of principle.
Paul Ryan’s Sisyphean Task Selling Medicare Reform
Hoping to take the sting out of his proposal to radically change Medicare, Paul Ryan released a video Wednesday morning explaining his plan with the help of some visual aids. Ryan is in desperate need of new messaging after a Democrat prevailed in special election to represent New York’s 26th district. The election was largely a …