
Furlough Friday: Unpaid day off for many in gov't
No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and ...
Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on ...

Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS
President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day ...

Obama walking a familiar path on IRS allegations
The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused ...
AP source: Obama to tap Werfel as acting IRS head
President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White ...

Treasury Secretary's loopy signature improving
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew may not have succeeded yet in getting a grand budget bargain with Congress, but at least his handwriting is improving.
Hill aides: White House recalculates spending cuts
The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $4 billion for the ...

Flood-weary Fargo, ND, lobbies for permanent fix
Filling and laying sandbags has become a civic rite of spring in Fargo, where the swollen Red River has caused major flooding in three of the past ...

Senate confirms new White House budget director
The Senate has confirmed Sylvia Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee to run the White House budget office. The vote was 96-0. Obama applauded the ...

Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program ...

Obama to return 5 percent of salary to Treasury
Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers ...
Obama nominates economic aide to 2nd budget slot
President Barack Obama has nominated one of his senior economic advisers as deputy director of the White House budget office. Obama has chosen Brian ...
Furlough notices out to presidential budget staff
The White House says 480 workers on the president's budget staff have been notified they may have to take days off without pay because of a partisan ...

Shore kids wowed by gov's copter, White House pals
The fact that their school recently became the first one to reopen after having been shuttered by Superstorm Sandy didn't faze a group of ...

Energy nominee favors all-of the-above approach
President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Energy Department advocates an all-of-the-above approach to energy and favors natural gas as a "bridge ...

Obama nominates Wal-Mart's Burwell as budget chief
President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington's ...
Obama to tap Walmart's Burwell for budget chief
President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Walmart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget director, a senior administration official said.
Unions aim to soften impact of cuts on workers
Federal employee labor unions are trying to soften the blow for more than 1 million government workers who may be forced to take unpaid time off if ...
White House, Congress face cuts; details lacking
The White House and Congress won't be immune to the automatic cuts in federal spending scheduled to kick in Friday. But for all the grim warnings the ...

More diversity likely in next Obama job selections
As he prepares to announce a new wave of Cabinet and other senior posts, President Barack Obama is aiming to put a more diverse face on his ...
White House: Obama wouldn't block GOP debt bill
The Obama administration says it won't oppose a House Republican proposal to increase the nation's $16.4 trillion borrowing authority for only three ...

Obama to tap budget expert Lew to lead Treasury
President Barack Obama will nominate White House chief of staff Jack Lew to be his second-term Secretary of the Treasury, turning to one of ...