Topic: Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed cutting ballooning U.S. budget deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years on Wednesday and called for talks with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to address the worsening fiscal woes.Obama, who has been criticized by both Democrats ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a narrow escape from a potentially damaging government shutdown, even bigger budget fights lie ahead for President Barack Obama and leaders from both parties in the U.S. Congress.Senior White House adviser David Plouffe told CNN that Obama's plan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out his approach for long-term deficit reduction later this week, his senior adviser David Plouffe said on Sunday.Obama will look at the Medicare and Medicaid government healthcare programs for the elderly and the poor ...
President Barack Obama's Republican foes, warning the debt-heavy US economy is hurtling towards collapse, called Tuesday for trillions of dollars of spending cuts in a politically risky budget plan.Republican Paul Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, crafted the party's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican proposal for sweeping changes to Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs appears unlikely to pass Congress, but could electrify the debate over the budget going into next year's elections.House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is set ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Tuesday proposed $6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, including a politically risky overhaul of government-run health programs, while also slashing tax rates as part of their 2012 budget blueprint.The budget proposal comes as Congress and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama extended an olive branch on Monday to U.S. states struggling to implement his healthcare law, offering support for a proposal that would give them some flexibility in carrying out its key parts.Obama's signature healthcare reform plan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday his healthcare overhaul is an important part of efforts to cut the budget deficit and insisted he will not "refight" the battle to pass the law.With emboldened Republicans vowing to repeal or replace ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday said repealing healthcare reforms would damage the economy, as the House of Representatives debated the law's repeal."Repealing the Affordable Care Act would be bad for business and bad for the economy," Geithner ...
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday an Obama administration crackdown on health care fraud is paying dividends, recovering more than $4 billion in Massachusetts alone during the past two years.The nation's chief law enforcement officer told attendees at a summit the government ...
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