Budget
2/1/2010 9:15 PM ET
Cautioning the Obama administration's "deficit projections...are just that, projections," NBC's Chuck Todd on Monday evening bought into the claim health care reform bills are actually spending ...
2/1/2010 2:02 PM ET
No wonder it's so hard to cut federal spending: A limited "spending freeze" of $250 billion over three years, out of a 2001 budget of $3.8 trillion, is twice trotted out as a radical "austerity" ...
12/17/2009 5:29 PM ET
CNN's John Roberts and his guest, Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, pushed for President Obama to break a campaign promise to not increase taxes on those who make less than $250,000, and ...
12/9/2009 7:13 PM ET
From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are ten biggest stories the media got wrong this year.
10/17/2009 3:10 PM ET
Back on October 7, when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit had ballooned to a massive $1.4 trillion during President Obama's first year on the job, Katie Couric's ...
8/28/2009 2:26 PM ET
Amid all of the tributes to Ted Kennedy's lengthy career of expanding the scope of government and its cost to taxpayers, CNN's American Morning on Friday dug up a six-week old op-ed from the Tax ...
6/22/2009 3:58 PM ET
Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer insults California Republicans once again for resisting tax hikes: "While Democrats struggle to preserve programs for the state's neediest residents through one-time ...
5/20/2009 1:09 PM ET
Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer blames California voters for rejecting higher taxes and dubious spending caps: "A smattering of California voters on Tuesday soundly rejected five ballot measures ...
5/8/2009 8:50 AM ET
ABC's White House correspondent reminds viewers Obama mocked opponent McCain for earmark vigilance of same dollar amount.
4/29/2009 12:14 PM ET
Buying bulk office supplies and other strokes of genius.