Fiscal Policy

Obama Comments On 'Fiscal Cliff' Talks

Mark Memmott — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Update at 9:45 p.m. Deal Reached

Vice President Joe Biden was meeting late Monday with Senate Democrats to brief them on a proposed deal to stop sharp tax increases and spending cuts. A source told NPR the deal with congressional Democratic and Republican leaders includes a mix of both.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have signed off on the agreement, which calls for a two-month deferral of the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester.

Open-Government Watchdogs OK With Closed-Door Fiscal Cliff Talks

Frank James — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:49:00 +0000

If President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner's closed-door meetings aimed at solving the fiscal cliff crisis trouble anyone, you'd expect it to be the open-government watchdogs who routinely bark their outrage at public officials who work overtime to avoid public scrutiny.

But Obama and Boehner's secret meetings (they held another at the White House on Monday) and one-on-one phone calls have been the case of the watchdogs that haven't barked.

The Betrayal Of The American Dream

Stephen Steigman and Steve Kraske — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:39:11 +0000

Over the years in this country, Washington and Wall Street have taken one step after another to dismantle the middle class. At one moment, it's trade policy and the outsourcing of hundreds of thousands of jobs. At another moment, it's tax policy.