Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups
By Eric PianinThere have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...
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Some CEOs Are Still Cashing In at Our Expense
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesMany of the highest paid CEOs might be ripping off stockholders and taxpayers, according to a study released Wednesday by the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
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Tax Reform Could Be Easier Than Congress Thinks
The conservative-leaning Tax Foundation issued a press release Monday touting some “good news for tax reformers”: An analysis by experts at the foundation found that a plan to dramatically simplify...
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‘The Daily Show’ Explains Why Our ‘Chicken$#!&’ Congress Hasn’t Reformed the Tax Code
Congress may be out on its month-long August recess, but that doesn’t mean “The Daily Show” stops its skewering. Last night, host John Oliver took on our broken tax code – and used the issue to take...
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How 21 Major Corporations Dodged $93B in Taxes
By Eric Pianin and Josh BoakTwenty-one of the top 100 publicly traded U.S. corporations – including such big names as Goldman Sachs, Apple and Walt Disney – have avoided paying $93 billion a year in federal taxes by parking...
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Obama’s Bargain: Lower Rates for Higher Spending
By Eric PianinPresident Obama intends to make one last pitch for a “grand bargain” of new spending and tax policy on Tuesday that will attempt to marry corporate tax reform with funding for jobs to benefit the...
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Ominous Signs for the GOP in 2014
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal TimesThe conventional wisdom is that Republicans are in good shape going into next year’s congressional elections. Gerrymandering and the enormous benefits of incumbency virtually guarantee them continued...
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Trading Tax Write-Offs for Real Growth
By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal TimesOverhauling the tax code is a wonky fixation of the D.C. policymaking elite, for good reason — it’s an area loaded with policy nuance, lobbying intrigue and major ramifications for long-term fiscal...
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IRS Scandal: How the Brouhaha Went Bust
By Peter Weber, TheWeek.comRep. Darrell Issa is still banging the scandal drum. Is anyone listening anymore?
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Beer, Burgers, and a Two-Man Blitz on Tax Reform
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesSen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) are keeping hope alive that the tax code can be rewritten. Both peg the odds of successful reform at more than 50 percent, according to a joint lunch...
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Details of Senate Fiscal Cliff Tax Deal
By Eric PianinHere is a summary of the fiscal cliff agreement approved by the Senate early Tuesday morning by a vote of 89 to 8. The House is set to vote on the plan today, and this is not a slam dunk. Many house...
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Will House Approve Senate Tax Hike on Super Rich?
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesIf the budget gods had their way, the 112th Congress would mercifully conclude its deliberations today on a major budget deal to blunt the worst of the fiscal cliff and then fade into history. We’re...
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Senate May Have Cliff Deal on Taxes Only
By Eric Pianin and Josh BoakA seemingly upbeat President Obama tried to keep the pressure on negotiators to finalize a fiscal cliff deal by midnight tonight as the rough contours of a bipartisan agreement began to emerge from...
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Cliff Deal? Or the Triumph of Hope Over Experience
By Thomas Ferraro and Jeff Mason, ReutersA deal to avert the fiscal crisis was said to be in the works in the Senate that would raise tax rates on household income above $450,000, said a source familiar with the talks. The agreement would...
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As Deadline Looms, Stocks Poised for a Cliff Dive
The turbulent fiscal cliff negotiations may have shaken the stock market last week, but they haven’t really unnerved investors – at least not yet. Analysts say that could still change, though, and...