WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday his administration will make "hard decisions" on Social Security and Medicare reform.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama should consider four budget reforms to address long-term challenges to the U.S. economy, a conservative think tank suggested.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday said taming entitlement programs will be part of the process in trimming the nation's budget deficit.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday selected former Treasury official Nancy Killefer as the nation's first chief performance officer.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday the United States may be facing trillion-dollar deficits "for years to come."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Unprecedented deficit spending being used to battle the U.S. financial downturn could be planting the seeds of the next crisis, critics say.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Balancing the federal budget during Barack Obama's first term would be a mistake, an economic adviser to the president-elect said.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Governors will have a chance to bend U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's ear on how the national economic crisis is ravaging state budgets, officials said.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday to go through the federal budget line-by-line to determine how better to spend tax dollars.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, with projected wins in West Coast states, became the first African-American president-elect of the United States Tuesday.
LEESBURG, Va., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Elect John McCain president and the United States will have a balanced federal budget four years from now, his running mate Sarah Palin promised Monday.
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Some U.S. economists are warning that Sen. Barack Obama's proposed spending plan may be too ambitious and will not have the revenues to make it work.
WICHITA, Kan., June 16 (UPI) -- President Bush, in his weekly radio address Saturday, accused congressional Democrats of adopting a budget requiring U.S. taxpayers to pay more.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The U.N. General Assembly has passed a $3.8 billion compromise 2006-2007 budget with checks on spending.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. House appropriations leaders warned Thursday the Pentagon's proposed 2005 budget might be targeted for cuts to fund other spending priorities.
