David Plouffe, one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisors, said Sunday that potential 2012 presidential candidate Donald Trump has ‘no chance’ of being elected to office.
With one budget fight behind him, President Barack Obama will offer a long-term plan for deficit reduction this week in preparation for bigger U.S. spending battles ahead, the White House said on Sunday.
President Barack Obama will announce later this week deficit reduction targets and a timeline to reach them, White House adviser David Plouffe said on Sunday.
With one budget fight behind him, President Barack Obama will offer a long-term plan for deficit reduction this week in preparation for bigger U.S. spending battles ahead, the White House said on Sunday.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
Donald Trump is defending his ‘birther’ position from criticisms of New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.
A debt ceiling vote and the 2012 budget will be the next major fiscal battles facing the U.S. throughout the rest of 2011, as Washington looks ahead after lawmakers in the House and Senate averted a shutdown in a last hour deal to fund the government for the next six months.
The last-minute budget deal President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck to avert a government shutdown paves the way for what Republicans promised on Saturday will be more spending fights to come.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday to narrowly avert a government shutdown that would have hit the economy and idled hundreds of thousands of workers.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a last-minute budget deal on Friday, averting a government shutdown.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a last-minute budget deal on Friday, averting a government shutdown that would have idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner spoke for several minutes without reaching a resolution early Friday evening, a Republican aide said extending a day of delay on averting a federal shutdown by midnight.
The House of Representatives voted on Friday to reject Internet neutrality rules that were adopted last year to keep big Internet service providers from blocking certain traffic
The federal budget shutdown may actually happen for the first time since 1996.
With a midnight deadline approaching, the White House and Congress scrambled on Friday to break a budget impasse that threatens to shut down the government and idle thousands of federal workers.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Friday that negotiators from the House and Senate attempting to avert a government shutdown had agreed to $38 billion in spending cuts for the current fiscal year, but it was unclear what would be done about Republican requests to defund Planned Parenthood and place new restrictions on the Environmental protection agency.
President Barack Obama said late Thursday that the federal government is starting to prepare for a shutdown and is seeking an early morning answer from Congressional negotiators on a possible budget deal.
Facing a midnight deadline, the White House and Congress worked furiously on Friday to break a budget deadlock and avoid a federal government shutdown, after President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to reach a deal in late-night talks.
U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday, led by energy and material stocks, as optimism about increased economic demand pushed commodity prices higher.
The Donald is on a roll. A week of frenetic attack on President Barack Obama has earned Donald Trump the second spot in a list of possible Republican presidential candidates in 2012.
