Posts Tagged ‘offer’

Obama to offer public support for Oklahoma following tornado disaster

President Barack Obama Tuesday morning planned to offer his support and the nation’s for Oklahoma residents still reeling from the aftermath of a deadly tornado. Obama was set to deliver remarks on the disaster at 10 a.m. ET in the White House State Dining Room. The president’s remarks follow a briefing he received on the [...]

Bowles and Simpson offer a modified budget plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairmen of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission are wading back into Washington’s budget wars with a revised, somewhat milder plan to rein in intractable federal deficits. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

GOP Embraces Obama Offer to Trim Social Security

President Obama’s “offer to trim Social Security benefits has perplexed and angered Democrats, but GOP leaders are embracing the proposal and rushing to jump-start a debate that will delve even more deeply into the touchy topic of federal spending on the elderly,” the Washington Post reports. Tweet This Post

Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive

By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarmly, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week. Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that [...]

Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarm, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week. Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that I think are [...]

Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarm, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week. Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that I think are [...]

Obama budget to offer program cuts, seek deficit deal: official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget proposal aimed at swaying Republicans to compromise on a deficit reduction deal to put the country's finances on a sounder footing, a senior administration official said on Friday. The president will offer to apply a less [...]

Obama renews offer to cut social safety nets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans. Signaling he might [...]

Powers wait to hear Iran response to nuclear offer

ALMATY (Reuters) – World powers hope Iran will respond positively on Wednesday to their new offer to lift some sanctions if Tehran scales back nuclear activity the West fears could be used to build bombs. The United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia presented the offer when their first meeting with Iran in eight [...]