The House GOP leadership announced on Monday that it would back an extension of a payroll tax cut through the end of the year without making offsetting cuts or tacking on unrelated policies. Read that again. Congress could be poised to pass a genuine bipartisan proposal more than a week before its deadline without submitting the country …
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Could We Be Headed Toward Yet Another Government Shutdown?
For what feels like the 624th time this year, the federal government on Friday will run out of money unless Congress acts. This deadline hasn’t gotten much ink because a) we’re all tired of writing the same fishbowl, government …
June Jobs Number Threatens Debt Talks — and Obama
Friday morning’s miserable jobs report delivered a blunt-force blow to Obama’s overall economic approach and posed a serious threat to the country’s recovery. More immediately, it complicates the President’s already difficult debt ceiling negotiations with Speaker John Boehner by adding an urgent priority: getting another stealth …