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ICYMI: The President’s 2014 budget eliminates $39B of special tax breaks for Big Oil companies over the next decade.
POTUS budget shows a clear willingness to compromise.
Now that Afghanistan and Iraq Wars are ended, can we return to prewar defense spending levels?
FACT: President Obama has signed $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction into law since FY 2011. This is where it came from.
Head Start is on the chopping block during the sequestration debate: As many as 80,000 children could lose access to Head Start’s comprehensive services and more than 30,000 teachers, administrators, and support staff could lose their jobs.
Take a look at this graph from Planet Money. Federal spending has certainly changed over the last 50 years!
(Source: npr.org)
Your cartoon of the day!
By Matt Wuerker
From the Cartoonist Group.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
Your cartoon of the day!
By Nick Anderson
From the Cartoonist Group.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
The House budget for fiscal year 2013 tasks congressional committees to “reduce lower-priority spending” to avert military cuts.
When they say “lower-priority spending”, they mean spending on programs that nourish children and provide safety nets, like foster care or child abuse prevention.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
Your cartoon of the day!
By Joel Pett
From the Cartoonist Group.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
