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* The Trump administration on Monday will unveil its long-awaited infrastructure proposal, which comes amid speculation over potential revenue sources and following multiple delays. A White House official confirmed to [...]

April 16, 2002 Well, thank you all very much. I appreciate you coming and giving me a chance to discuss the budget of our country. First, I want to thank [...]

Byline: Susan Davis, USA TODAY, The White House conferred with Republican senators Thursday as part of a quiet campaign aimed at assessing the lay of the land for autumn's fiscal [...]

Byline: Susan Page President Obama is going on the road, including a stop today in Tennessee, to set the stage for fiscal showdowns this fall that risk shutting down the [...]

SEOUL -- The South Korean government proposed a 17.3 trillion won stimulus Tuesday to revive slowing growth in the country. The $15.3 billion effort would be the third-largest supplementary budget [...]

IN the national debate over fiscal policy, an important question is what the long-run goal should be. Representative Paul D. Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has a plan [...]

Byline: Hank Johnson We must reject efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare in the name of debt reduction. A recent national poll shows that most Americans, across party lines, [...]

In a little less than a month, assuming that Congress is not overtaken by a sudden case of sanity, automatic spending cuts totaling $1 trillion over nine years will go [...]

Byline: Ernest H. Preeg , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES There has been intensive discussion about the U.S. trillion-dollar annual fiscal deficits and the consequent federal debt of $16 trillion, [...]

Byline: Warren L. Dean Jr. , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama's strategy for governing during his second term now seems pretty clear. It is exactly the same as [...]

Byline: Marco Rubio Just 17 months ago, Washington raised the nation's debt limit to $16.39 trillion, the largest debt ceiling level in our nation's history. But because this increase didn't [...]

Suppose a couple is having a hard time making ends meet. What are the options? One is to cut spending on things like eating out. Another is to increase income [...]

President Obama has been on the offensive since his reelection but landmines lie in his path that could detonate in the short and medium term, depleting his political capital and [...]

Byline: DANIEL RUTH This was a thing of fife and drum beauty: Republicans and Democrats putting aside their petty, partisan disharmony to come together as comrades-in-chicanery for the good of [...]

Washington On Thursday, the Capitol was full of happy people. The trauma of the 112th Congress -- which ended 36 hours after yet another frenzied round of kick-the-financial-can -- was [...]

Byline: Susan Davis, David Jackson,, Richard Wolf and Susan Page, USA TODAY This fiscal cliff: averted. Next fiscal cliff: ahead. Partisan divisions and brinksmanship politics defined the outgoing Congress right [...]

Mexican Pres Vicente Fox's tax reform proposals are examined. Topics include proposals to eliminate VAT exemptions, compensation to low-income brackets, cuts in high-income tax brackets, goals of increasing tax revenues, the controversial aspects of the proposal, role of oil revenue in fiscal policy, and predictions the reforms will ultimately pass.

Much of the blame for the stalemate in deficit-reduction talks rests with conservatives opposed to any tax increase on anyone ever. But some liberals are apparently determined to show they [...]

Byline: Susan Davis and Jackie Kucinich, USA TODAY, House Speaker John Boehner was handed a stunning defeat late Thursday by members of his own party who refused to support his [...]

Byline: David Grant With less than a week to go before Christmas, talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio show no public signs of progress [...]

Byline: Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, With huge federal spending cuts and tax hikes looming, county and city officials are grappling with how they might deal with the ramifications if Congress [...]

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has a problem. With the federal government approaching its debt limit of $16.394 trillion, some members of the House have said they won't vote to [...]

PARIS -- Spain's borrowing costs rose on Tuesday at an auction of short-term debt, showing investors' uncertainty about the country's strategy for emerging from crisis. The Spanish Treasury sold almost [...]

So it will be Plan B - or at least Plan A done so much more slowly that it will in effect be a different plan. For a couple of [...]

Byline: David Kotok Many analysts argue that the eurozone crisis will put the U.S. economy into a recession. They are wrong. Most fail to acknowledge the lessons learned by Americans [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Ben Bernanke has often talked about the need for sounder budget policies in Washington, but the Federal Reserve chairman has ramped his message up a notch: Failure [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT BUDGET 2012 TORONTO -- Battered by weak economies and weighted down with debt, the premiers of Ontario and Quebec have united to accuse the Harper government of [...]

Byline: DON DRUMMONDDRUMMOND REPORTChair of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public ServicesOntario faces two huge challenges - economic and fiscal.The province has already slid below the average of [...]

Byline: Jason WalshFor most of the European Union, the fiscal treaty approved earlier this year is a done deal. In Ireland, however, where the Constitution requires a national referendum on [...]

European Union leaders failed on Monday to move forward on their most urgent task: increasing the bailout fund to protect Europe's ailing economies from defaulting on their bonds. Instead, leaders [...]

Here's the critical takeaway from last week's European rescue plan: Nothing in it addresses the endemic economic weaknesses that nearly propelled the euro zone into a meltdown. However successful the [...]