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(Newser) - Jeb Bush has a pretty dim view of President Obama, but he wouldn’t go so far as to call him names. When Tucker Carlson asks the former Florida governor if Obama is “a socialist” in an interview for Esquire, Bush demurs. “I don't know,” he... More »

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Bush administration • socialism • Republican Party • Jeb Bush • budget deficit • interview • Obama administration • President Obama

OPINION

 Top 5 States of Confusion 


Jul 3, 09 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s not easy being an elected official in a time of crisis, but a select few governors are having a particularly tough time. And some of them are even trying to get reelected. Politico looks at the 5 worst-off states:
  • California: No surprise here. The state's issuing
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California • Arizona • Jon Corzine • New Jersey • New York • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Michigan • recession • unemployment • Jennifer Granholm • state legislature • budget deficit • David Paterson • Jan Brewer

California Begins
Printing IOUs


Jul 2, 09 7:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Californians still waiting for their state tax returns will open their mail to find an IOU instead of a check. Unable to close a gargantuan budget deficit, the state began printing a $53 million batch of IOUs this afternoon, the Los Angeles Times reports. Some banks have agreed... More »

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California • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sacramento • budget deficit • IOU

Health-Care Reform Will Save Economy, Too: Obama

He pushes reform during town hall meeting

Jul 1, 09 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans will suffer doubly without immediate health-care reform because the economy needs the boost, President Obama said in a town-hall meeting today as he tried to sell a plan half of Americans say they don’t really understand. He cited rising premiums, less employer coverage, and increasing Medicare costs as... More »

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health care • health care costs • legislation • budget deficit • President Obama

(Newser) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today declared a fiscal emergency and ordered lawmakers to produce a plan to close the state’s $24.3 billion deficit within 45 days, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. To accomplish that, Schwarzenegger called a special session of the legislature, and also ordered 220,000 state... More »

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California • California legislature • Arnold Schwarzenegger • executive order • governor • budget deficit • budget gap • furlough • special session

Facing $24B Shortfall, Calif. Gets No Love From Feds

Washington refuses state's requests for aid

Jun 28, 09 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - California may be the world’s 8th-largest economy and key to President Obama’s re-election, but requests for financial aid are falling on deaf ears in Washington, Politico reports. The Golden State remains deadlocked over a $24 billion budget deficit, and many of its own officials are unsympathetic. “Why... More »

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California • Washington • budget deficit • economic stimulus package • bailout • economy • Obama administration

(Newser) - The second major poll of the day is out, and a clear theme is emerging for President Obama: Take care of the budget deficit. About 60% of respondents in a New York Times/CBS poll say the president hasn't developed a clear strategy to keep the deficit down. The findings echo... More »

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budget deficit • approval ratings • New York Times/CBS News poll • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama remains a popular president—75% of poll respondents like him personally—but a new survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC finds growing worry about his financial policies and the deficit in particular. Overall, Obama's approval rating fell to 56%, down 5 points from April. Nearly 7... More »

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budget deficit • approval ratings • NBC/WSJ Poll • Obama administration • President Obama

 Feds Reject Plea 
 for Calif. Bailout 

Aid ruled out for now as state warns of fiscal meltdown

Jun 16, 09 6:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The federal government has rejected pleas for emergency aid from top California officials, reports the Washington Post. State officials warn that its budget crisis is approaching the point of a "fiscal meltdown" that will cause massive cuts and deepen the state's recession. But the Obama administration fears bailing out... More »

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California • budget • budget deficit • Federal government • bailout • state budgets

(Newser) - Republicans think they’ve found one chink in President Obama’s armor: public fear over rising national debt. Some 51% of Americans disapprove of Obama’s efforts to control federal spending, according to a recent poll. In every other area, Obama enjoys positive ratings. “The president is still popular,... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • budget • John Cornyn • Republican Party • Lamar Alexander • budget deficit • Republican strategy • Obama administration • President Obama • budget crisis

Analysis

How We Wound Up With
a $1.2T Deficit


Jun 10, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s agenda plays a very small role in the massive deficits facing the country, but it won't do anything to correct them, wither the New York Times reports. After reviewing a decade’s worth of Congressional Budget Office reports, the paper explains how the government turned a... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • national debt • budget deficit • balanced budget • George W. Bush • Obama administration • budget crisis

Policymakers Float Federal Sales Tax Idea

American VAT long rejected as politically impossible policy

May 27, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal sales tax has long been seen as politically off-limits, but the massive deficit has some in Washington pushing for it. “It's common to the rest of the world, and we don't have it,” a tax analyst tells the Washington Post. In dire times, “fundamental tax... More »

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health care • Congress • recession • budget deficit • sales tax • Kent Conrad • VAT • value-added tax

Calif. Voters Torpedo Budget Crisis Measures

Defeat leaves Governator facing massive service cuts

May 20, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Californian voters soundly rejected five ballot measures that would keep the hard-hit state economically solvent until the end of the year, on a turnout of little more than 10%. The vote against extended tax increases and capped spending is a sharp rebuke to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators who... More »

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California • Arnold Schwarzenegger • budget • vote • state legislature • budget deficit • propositions • California economy

 Proposed Tax 
 No Fair, 
 Brown U. 
 Students Say 

Providence mayor wants to charge them $300 a year

May 13, 09 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Students at Brown University say they contribute to their community in countless ways, and a proposed $150-per-semester tax shouldn’t be one of them, the AP reports. “We’re more able to provide labor, we’re more able to apply the things that we're learning in the classroom, than... More »

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taxes • budget • mayor • Rhode Island • colleges and universities • Brown University • budget deficit • Providence • students • David Cicilline

US Deficit to Quadruple to $1.8T, Top 2008 Record

pls. try to get into head/deck that this figure is 4x the record, set in 2008

May 11, 09 11:14 AM CDT
(AP) - With the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year. The deficit for the current budget year will rise by $89 billion to above $1.8 trillion—about four times... More »

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Barack Obama • budget • deficit • budget deficit • Obama administration • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - President Obama’s vow to scour the federal budget for savings hasn’t amounted to as much as many hoped, the Washington Post reports. The administration will today announce $17 billion in proposed cuts to 121 programs, a sliver of the $3.4 trillion budget. “Even if you... More »

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Barack Obama • budget • budget cuts • budget deficit • Obama administration

(AP) - President Obama appealed to federal workers today to propose ways to make their agencies' and departments' budgets more efficient. The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials cut millions from the federal budget and trim the deficit. "After all, Americans across the country know that... More »

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government spending • federal employees • budget deficit • Obama administration • President Obama • radio address • budget bill

OPINION

 Obama Fakes 
 Center, Goes Liberal 


Apr 4, 09 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - If President Obama were a quarterback, he’d be a master of the fake, Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard. Using “misdirection,” he markets “his product—the liberal agenda, plus a few add-ons—in a manner that disguises what he's really up to.” While... More »

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nationalization • recession • auto industry • financial sector • budget deficit • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • President Obama • Fred Barnes

 Dems Slash 
 Obama's 
 Budget 

Congressional Dems scrap future plans to bail out financial sector

Mar 25, 09 2:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democratic leaders trying to trim the federal deficit have taken a hatchet to President Obama's budget plan, reports the Washington Post. Congressional Democrats are expected to formally announce plans today to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget over the next five years, and eliminate plans to steer... More »

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Senate Democrats • House Democrats • budget deficit • federal budget • Obama administration • taxation • Peter Orszag

OPINION

 Obama Makes 
 GOP Miss Clinton 


Mar 5, 09 2:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Back in the '90s you wouldn’t hear many Republicans waxing poetic about Bill Clinton, but these days, that’s exactly what Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune is doing. “Clinton, for all his appetites and excesses, was a cautious, centrist sort of Democrat” who “proclaimed—or conceded—... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • conservative • budget deficit • balanced budget • fiscal policy • Republicans

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