The White House estimates that the jobs bill could cost 100 billion dollars. Roughly that amount will create about a million jobs. That is eight million less than the goal of full employment by end of 2012. The gap is to be closed by private sector …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will predict a $1.6 trillion U.S. budget deficit in the 2010 fiscal year, a fresh record and the biggest since World War Two as a share of the economy, a congressional source told Reuters on Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will deliver remarks on the budget on Monday, the White House said on Sunday.
The White House said Sunday that military flights of critically injured Haitians will resume soon after assurances were given that hospitals have the capacity to deal with them.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.
The White House has said the US administration still hopes the trial of the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks will be held on American soil.
Thomas F. Vietor, a spokesman for the White House, said he hoped a plan for the critically injured could be announced within hours, but declined to comment further. Officials who asked for anonymity b…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House’s top economic adviser Lawrence Summers gave some backing to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Sunday, saying Geithner deserves an “enormous amount of credit” for his strategy in stabilizing U.S. banks.
Good morning.The Sunday shows will undoubtedly be consumed with the week that was. And, it won’t be just the State of the Union. Several GOP House leaders, including John Boehner on NBC and Paul Ryan on FOX, will be trying to spin themselves out of …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will propose cutting or changing some 120 items in his budget for fiscal 2011 that will help save $20 billion this year, the White House said on Saturday.