Outside the Beltway

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

It is always easier to compromise on more spending and less taxes.

We won’t be able to solve our fiscal problems until the American people grow up. So far, there are no signs of that happening.

The current approach of the GOP to health care is not dissimilar to its approach to fiscal policy: not a lot of substance.

When determining the effects on the deficit of a certain legislative action, both revenues and spending have to be accounted for. Indeed, you can’t determine whether there is a deficit, surplus or balanced budget without both variables.

Is it possible to govern and not engage in some amount of redistribution?

Ok, what strategy should Speaker Boehner pursue?

Instead of decades-old retreads like talking about abolishing the Department of Education, it would be nice if we had a real debate about the fiscal circumstances in the country.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Congress and the White House are starting to stake out sides in the upcoming battle over extending the Bush tax cuts.

President Obama’s powers of persuasion were severely lacking at the G-20 Summit this weekend.