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DEFICIT REDUCTION: Should the federal deficit be reduced by eliminating waste, fraud, and duplication in the federal budget?

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Debt fight looms in 2014

President Obama and Congress will be plunged into another fiscal battle after the holid...
Submitted on: Mar 15, 2014
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Obama Signs $1.1 Trillion U.S. Government Spending Bill

President Barack Obama signed a $1.1 trillion bill to finance the U.S. government throu...
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Debt Debate for Dummies: 6 Keys to the Issue

Understanding the debt ceiling debate: America uses borrowed money to operate on a dail...
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Understanding the debt ceiling debate: Separating myth from fact

LOS ANGELES, October 13, 2013 - The political battles over Obamacare, the government sh...
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US Debt Ceiling

The U.S. debt is financed with Treasury notes. Photo: U.S. Department of the Treasury S...
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Lew: Debt ceiling crunch to come sooner than thought

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said it's likely he will run out of debt ceiling wiggl...
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Harry Reid, Jack Lew differ on debt limit timing

The Obama administration and Senate Democrats can’t seem to agree on when the...
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Strategists to Republicans: Restrain yourselves on debt-ceiling negotiations

GOP strategists are urging restraint in the upcoming debt-ceiling fight.
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What will Congress do about the debt ceiling?

If all you wanted for Christmas was another budgetary battle royale, you were probably ...
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Republican Strategists To GOP Lawmakers: Please Don't Blow It On The Debt Ceiling

The Hill reported Saturday that the looming debt ceiling battle has a number of GOP str...
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CBO: Debt-ceiling doomsday won't come again until March. (Or maybe June.)

Is anyone eager for another debt-ceiling crisis? Probably not. But just in case, the Co...
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Ryan Says GOP to Make Debt-Ceiling Demands in Early '14

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) signaled that Republicans would no...
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Are Republicans ready to surrender on the debt ceiling again?

One of the more consequential bits of news last week came in the form of a letter to co...
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U.S. Treasury could have less breathing room under 2014 debt ceiling

Obama on Thursday signed into law a bill that would suspend a $16.7 trillion cap on the...
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U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

US National Debt Clock : Real Time U.S. National Debt Clock
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At Current Spending Pace U.S. Will Reach $22 Trillion in Debt by February

With the end of the government shutdown, we also saw a hike in the debt ceiling. For th...
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Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, November 2013

The debt limit-commonly referred to as the debt ceiling-is the maximum amount of debt t...
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The US debt ceiling crisis explained

Q: I just want you to know that I would rather be doing anything, anything at all, rath...
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Obama budget plan claims $5.3 trillion in deficit reduction

President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.9 trillion election-year budget that wo...
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Reid blocks Senate vote on Obama's deficit-reduction plan

Sen. McConnell wanted a vote on what he called Obama's "ridiculous" plan...
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Obama's Deficit Reduction Promise

On February 23, 2009, just a month after taking office, President Barack Obama made ver...
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