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A Quick Guide to Obama’s New Budget
As soon as the White House released President Obama's 2016 budget, Heritage Foundation experts dove into the details. Here's a peek at some of the proposals they found: -
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Will GOP Blink in Fight Over Obama’s Executive Amnesty?
How serious are Republicans about their promise to stop President Obama’s executive actions granting work permits and Social Security cards to millions of people in the country illegally? We’re about to find out. When the president issued his latest royal decree after the mid-term election, it wasn’t the first time he had bypassed Congress in… -
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Obama Wants to Hike Corporate Taxes to Pay For Infrastructure. Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea.
It is fitting that President Obama released his 2016 budget on Groundhog’s Day. Like Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors in the famous movie, Obama is stuck in an endless loop where he keeps pushing economically destructive tax hikes that have little chance of becoming law. This is the seventh budget he has released, and each… -
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What Obama Got Right and Wrong in His 2016 Budget
President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2016 on Monday. We'll be continuously updating this story with Heritage Foundation experts' takes on the budget. Click on the issues below for detailed analysis or see the infographic for a snapshot of what's included. Health Care Climate Change Immigration Taxes and Spending Education Energy Welfare and… -
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Senate Approves Keystone: Up to Obama to Decide If America Is Open for Business
On January 29, the Senate passed S. 1, the first bill of the 114th Congress, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline by a 62–36 margin, including nine Democratic votes. The House passed its version of a Keystone XL bill earlier this month, leaving the chambers to sort out differences and send an agreed-upon version to President… -
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Obama’s Drilling Ban in Alaska Isn’t About Saving Polar Bears. It’s About His Radical Agenda
It was just recently that President Obama took credit for falling gas prices in his State of the Union address, and already he is sticking another knife in the back of America’s domestic oil and gas producers — to say nothing of the residents of Alaska. Obama’s latest anti-fossil-fuels directive is to move off-limits to… -
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Hey, PolitiFact, Elizabeth Warren’s Inaccurate Statement Isn’t ‘Mostly True’
A recent PolitiFact review of a statement by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggests that a statement can be factually inaccurate yet “mostly true.” In a Jan. 7 speech, Sen. Warren said: “The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago.” This flies in the… -
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Obama Drops the Pretense of Bipartisanship
Let’s be grateful to President Barack Obama. In his State of the Union address, he dropped the pretense of bipartisanship and, by siding with the progressives, gave the nation what it needs: a clear choice. That’s the true American way. One of the most tiresome things about the first six years of President Obama’s tenure… -
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Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Administration Treats Journalists Like ‘Enemies of the State’
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson accused the Obama administration of stifling press freedom by systematically cracking down on reporters—even treating them like enemies. “The job of getting at the truth has never been more difficult,” says @SharylAttkisson “If you cross this administration with perfectly accurate reporting they don’t like, you will be attacked and punished,” Attkisson… -
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Cartoon: Obama’s Environmental Footprint
Heritage Foundation's Nick Loris, whose work focuses on energy policy, weighed in earlier this week: The Obama administration is calling on Congress to designate more than 12 million acres in Alaska as wilderness, including the coastal plain, barring economic activity and energy development. If Congress chose to act, it would be the largest wilderness designation… -
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Obama Wants to Reverse Sequestration. What You Need to Know.
Four years into the Budget Control Act of 2011, President Obama is expected to once again ask Congress to break its commitment to reduce spending. Congress should stick to it. Obama's budget, expected on Monday, will reportedly propose to spend more than is allowed under the statutory, sequester-enforced Budget Control Act spending caps. If Congress… -
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Obama’s Allowing More Drilling, But It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
One step forward, two steps back. That sums up the Obama administration’s proposed lease plan for oil and natural gas drilling. The proposal includes the mid- and south-Atlantic regions, which had been blocked from energy exploration. But any new areas of exploration are just making up for areas lost in 2010, and the president’s plan… -
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What’s Wrong With Obama’s Rush to Change Doctors’ Medicare Payments
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell has unveiled a major initiative to push Medicare physicians and other medical professionals out of fee for service (FFS), which pays based on specific services rendered, and into alternative payment models (APMs). Before deciding that all Medicare providers must abandon Medicare fee-for-service, the Obama administration should make sure… -
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Obama Proposes Eliminating Tax Cut Designed to Help Families Save for College
The Obama administration will soon propose raising taxes on middle-income families struggling to save for college–at a time when college costs are higher than they’ve ever been. For years, families have been using 529 college savings accounts. Once you invest after-tax dollars in these accounts, the money grows tax-free and you can withdraw the initial… -
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Obama Keeps Repeating This Same False Claim About Citizens United Decision
At almost the same time that protesters mad about the Citizens United decision were disrupting the start of the Supreme Court’s session on Wednesday, the White House issued a “Statement from the President” condemning the decision on its fifth anniversary. And once again, President Obama repeated the same false claim about “foreign corporations” that he… -
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How Obama’s Decision to Minimize U.S. Role on World Stage Has Worked Out
After taking office, President Obama embarked on one of the riskiest experiments in American history. He decided to see what the world would look like if the United States pulled back from its role as guarantor of global stability and underwriter of the international order. Six years later, we know. The more we withdrew, the… -
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Obama Ignored Entrepreneurship in State of the Union
In the State of the Union, President Obama talked about many of the priorities he has for the nation moving forward. But entrepreneurship, it seems, isn’t one of them. In his 6,493-word speech, the phrases “entrepreneur” and “small businesses” each appeared only once. The only time Obama did directly mention helping entrepreneurs was while pledging… -
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Cartoon: Obama Is Robin Hood
From Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield: President Obama’s new tax plan, which he discussed in part in the State of the Union, lays out new proposals that he claims would help low- and middle-income families. These included a new tax credit program for dual-earner families and an expansion of the Earned Income Tax… -
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Florida Lawmaker: Obama’s Cuba Deal ‘Great’ for Castro Regime, ‘Bad’ for US
Rep. IIeana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., today criticized what she called President Obama’s “wrong-headed” move to normalize relations with Cuba. As landmark talks for the United States and Cuba to restore diplomatic ties wrapped up today in Havana, Ros-Lehtinen, who is Cuban-American, warned the Obama administration to proceed cautiously. “It’s a bad deal for the United States… -
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Mike Huckabee Tells Megyn Kelly Why Obama’s Approach to Iran Is Dangerous
By giving Iran more leeway as it tries to build a nuclear weapon, President Obama is trusting a “rabid dog,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said last night. “You don’t take the chain off a rabid dog,” Huckabee told Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, “but that’s what we’ve done.” Huckabee, who recently left his own…