Topic: The White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet on Monday with top U.S. regulators to discuss progress on implementing the legislation he signed a year ago overhauling the country's financial regulatory system.The meeting is set for 2:15 p.m. EDT at the White ...
US President Barack Obama will on Wednesday hold a fourth straight day of tough budget talks with his Republican foes after a key White House critic floated a plan to avert an early August debt default.Obama gave only a lukewarm welcome on ...
US President Barack Obama will Wednesday hold a fourth straight day of tough budget talks with his Republican foes, as a key White House critic floated a plan to avert an early August debt default.Obama gave only a lukewarm welcome on Tuesday ...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama and top lawmakers will meet again on Monday in search of a deal on slashing the budget deficit and raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before the United States defaults.Obama wants to strike a deal well before ...
President Barack Obama and his Republican foes face off again next week in talks on reining in runaway US debt, amid a White House warning that they have just weeks to avert an economic meltdown."I'm confident that the Democrats and Republicans in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday called on Vice President Joe Biden to include new economic stimulus spending in deficit-reduction talks as a way of lowering the 9.1 percent jobless rate that is hobbling the economic recovery.Senate Majority Leader ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House aide Larry Summers on Sunday urged expanded tax cuts on U.S. workers' wages, warning that America's economy was at risk of years of Japan-style stagnation without a further boost.In an opinion piece published by Reuters on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury has yet to determine a target price or timeframe for selling its remaining shares in General Motors Co, a White House official said on Wednesday.Ron Bloom, the Obama administration's point man for auto restructuring, also told reporters ...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A push to overhaul the U.S. corporate tax code will take a back seat to negotiations on the deficit and debt ceiling over the next two months, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday.Geithner said the Obama administration ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With one budget fight behind him, President Barack Obama will offer a long-term plan for deficit reduction this week in preparation for bigger U.S. spending battles ahead, the White House said on Sunday.Senior White House adviser David Plouffe said ...