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WASHINGTON (AP) — The conservative Heritage Foundation is claiming in a new report that bipartisan immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $ 6.3 trillion. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Senate Democrats’ budget seeks $1.85 trillion in savings: source
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats on Wednesday will unveil a budget blueprint that attempts to slice federal deficits by $ 1.85 trillion over 10 years through an equal mix of spending cuts and tax increases on the rich, according to a Democratic source. The fiscal plan, which will be debated by the Senate Budget Committee this [...]
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No Comments »Report: Half trillion need to update schools
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s schools are in such disrepair that it would cost more than $ 270 billion just to get elementary and secondary buildings back to their original conditions and twice that to get them up to date, a report released Tuesday estimated. In a foreword to the report, former President Bill Clinton said [...]
Republican budget plan seeks $4.6 trillion more in spending cuts
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on Monday he can balance the federal budget in 10 years without raising taxes any further by achieving $ 4.6 trillion in additional government spending cuts. Ryan, who plans to unveil the House Republican budget on Tuesday, said in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece [...]
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Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2013
CBS News reports the national debt increased by more than $ 6 trillion since President Obama took office. Tweet This Post
Projected Deficit Falls Under $1 Trillion
Posted by admin on February 5th, 2013
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting an $ 845 billion budget deficit in fiscal year, the first time it has forecast a budget gap below $ 1 trillion under President Obama, The Hill reports. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
Japan approves $1.02 trillion budget for 2013/14, borrowing at new highs
Posted by admin on January 29th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's government approved on Tuesday a $ 1.02 trillion draft budget for the next fiscal year that aims to nudge tax revenues above new bond sales for the first time in four years, but still relies on borrowing to cover 46.3 percent of its spending. The first full-year draft budget compiled under [...]
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Posted by admin on January 13th, 2013
Paul Krugman gets a call from the White House after they rejected the trillion dollar coin idea to stave off default on the nation’s bonds: Tweet This Post
Treasury, Fed kill idea of $1 trillion platinum coins to avert debt crisis
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – So much for the $ 1 trillion platinum coin idea. The U.S. Treasury Department said on Saturday it will not produce platinum coins as a way of generating $ 1 trillion in revenue and avoiding a battle in Congress over raising the U.S. debt ceiling. The idea of creating $ 1 trillion [...]
YouTube Reaches 1 Trillion Racist Comments
SAN BRUNO, CA—The Silicon Valley headquarters of YouTube reportedly erupted in cheers shortly after 10 a.m. local time Thursday as the popular video-sharing service celebrated The Onion Tweet This Post