Apr 08 Watch Obama on Shutdown Deal: 'Americans of Different Beliefs Came Together' Obama on Shutdown Deal: 'Americans of Different Beliefs Came Together'… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Brooks, Marcus on 'Absurdity' of Shutdown Debates, Paul Ryan's Budget Plan New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discuss the battles over the short- and long-term government budgets, including deadlocked negotiations over funding for this fiscal year and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal for fiscal… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Budget Battle Lines Drawn Over Spending, Planned Parenthood as Shutdown Nears Federal agencies prepared for a shutdown as negotiators struggled to reach a budget compromise. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest on the budget talks with Todd Zwillich, Washington correspondent for WNYC radio. Continue watching
Apr 08 Weekonomics: Budget Negotiations Edition By Elizabeth Shell // Just hours away from a potential government shutdown, Paul Solman speaks via Skype with two economists on the financial implications of the budget impasse in this week's edition of "Weekonomics: Our Friday Roundup."… Continue reading
Apr 08 Weekonomics: Budget Negotiations Edition Just hours away from a potential government shutdown, Paul Solman Skypes with two economists on the financial implications of the budget impasse in this week's edition of 'Weekonomics: Our Friday Roundup'. Continue reading
Apr 08 Health Care Issues Key in Budget Battle The news this week in Washington is all budget, all the time: Will Congress work out a budget deal before Friday's midnight deadline, or will the federal government close until a compromise can be found? The Obama administration… Continue reading
Apr 08 Ideology vs Idiocy: The Shutdown Showdown As the shutdown showdown approached its third or fourth climax late this week, I found myself in Flint, Mich., the former General Motors manufacturing powerhouse, where the unemployment rate still stands at nearly 12 percent and people can be… Continue reading
Apr 08 Boehner, Reid Tweets Show Disagreement on the Disagreement As the Wall Street Journal's Naftali Bendavid told Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour Thursday night, the two sides in the high-stakes budget debate can't even agree on what they disagree about, in public at least. And after late night… Continue reading
Apr 08 Democrats, Republicans Must Beat Midnight Deadline to Avoid Shutdown Federal employees protest a potential government shutdown outside the Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The stakes at this point are crystal clear. When the clock strikes midnight Friday the federal government will run… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Obama: No Deal Yet to Avert Government Shutdown President Obama says new talks did not yield a deal to prevent a government shutdown. Continue watching