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Obama Signs New Stopgap Spending Bill As Budget Talks Continue
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama on Friday signed a stopgap spending bill that cuts $6 billion from the current federal budget and provide funds to keep the government operating through April 8. The measure, approved by the House and Tuesday and the Senate on Thursday, gives negotiators breathing room to try to hammer out a longer-term spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Another stopgap bill passed in early March trimmed $4 billion in federal spending. It was set to expire March 18. The $10 billion in cuts are far short of the $61 billion the GOP-controlled House agreed to ...
Poll: Americans Want Action on the Deficit, but Oppose Most Proposals to Cut It
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAmid all the discussion and debate about the deficit and what to do about it, several hard truths keep emerging: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe it is a major problem and almost none of the most widely mentioned proposals to cut the red ink by reducing spending or raising taxes get majority support from the public. Those realities stand out starkly in a new Pew Research Center poll, conducted Dec. 1-5, in which 70 percent of Americans say the deficit is a major problem that must be solved now, but disapprove by a big margin of the deficit commission's plan to get the red ink ...
John Heilemann's Theory on Why Democrats Won't Fix Social Security
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe full 18-member deficit reduction commission has yet to vote on it, but the two chairmen of the bipartisan group President Obama's appointed -- former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson -- released their proposal last week. One part of the plan includes gradually raising the Social Security retirement age (for full Social Security benefits) to 69 by 2075. Predictably, liberals were angry at the commission. In fact, some bloggers dubbed them the "Catfood Commission." When you consider a) how bad our financial situation currently is; b) that ...
Tim Pawlenty Debut: The Un-Palin, Un-Romney Makes His White House Case for 2012
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWhy was Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota wearing jeans this month at a meeting of formally attired governors in Boston? Fashion mystery solved: He was rushing off to a county Republican picnic 67 miles away in New Hampshire, the lead-off presidential primary state. There's no mystery about Pawlenty's political intentions, which partly explains why he drew 39 journalists to his debut this week at a ritual Washington breakfast -- "one of the biggest turnouts in recent breakfast history," said host David Cook of the Christian Science Monitor. Another reason is that, unlike other 2012 prospects ...
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