While I have a difficult enough time trying to understand my own household budget, the numbers that go with Pres. Obama’s proposed 2012 budget are clearly very important, but wildly difficult to ...

WASHINGTON -- Trillion is the new billion. No longer is it a billion here and a billion there that add up to real money. Swap a "tr" for the "b" if you want a measure of what's at stake under ...

President Obama will release a “fiscally responsible” budget for the country today, his aides say. This is not news. It happened last year. And the year before. And the year before. In Obama’s first ...

With a divided Congress still standing at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the annual White House budget isn’t a policy proposal destined for markup in the subcommittee rooms of the Capitol. It’s ...

Obama’s budget contains almost $1 trillion in tax hikes over 10 years on individuals making more than $200,000 and couples earning over $250,000. About $350 billion more would be raised through a ...