Obama Administration

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period.” That is a clear cut pledge, and a very good one...

1. Health reform is first and foremost about controlling costs – There are three major problems people would like to solve through health reform: cost...

President Obama reiterated his intention to veto any Defense Appropriations Bill that contains superfluous spending provisions today at a Veterans of...

Austan Goolsbee, chief economist of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board appears below on the Daily Show with John Stewart. Goolsbee...

August 4 - Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated the administration's pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less...

July 24 - Read Fred Hiatt's excellent interview with President Obama on health care reform and the need to deal with the fiscal crisis. Important...

July 17 - President Obama's chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers spoke today to the Peterson Institute for International Economics on "Rescuing and...

June 13 - In this morning's weekly radio address, President Obama again made the case for health care reform, arguing that it is "essential to...

Yesterday, President Obama announced his support for enacting statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO). Under the President's proposal, OMB would maintain a...