Defense Secretary Robert Gates forged ahead this week with more cost-cutting and efficiency efforts at the Pentagon, providing a good example for other government leaders to set better budget priorities. Some of the measures he announced Monday have enough bite,…
If President Obama was looking for Congress to rubber-stamp his request for additional “emergency” funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, he was sorely disappointed. He asked for the money last February but a wary Congress didn’t…
Despite important political and economic ties, Britain and the United States are pursuing very different policies to deal with the tremendous fiscal challenges they face. Prime Minister David Cameron, who visited the U.S. last week, hopes to cut Britain’s budget…
In recent weeks the congressional Appropriations Committees made considerable progress on bills for the coming fiscal year. But the limited number of legislative days left and an increasingly partisan atmosphere have led to speculation that few of the bills will…
