VOA标准英语2011--Automatic US Spending Cuts Loom

Automatic US Spending Cuts Loom Under current U.S. law, automatic cuts to domestic programs and national defense will begin in 2013, because a congressional committee failed to agree on trimming Americas federal deficit. Already, many lawmakers say t

VOA标准英语 Obama Tells Cabinet to Cut Spending

U.S. President Barack Obama has instructed his Cabinet to cut $100 million in federal spending during the next 90 days, a largely symbolic move designed to draw attention to cost cutting in Washington. President Barack Obama speaks to the media afte

VOA标准英语2009年-Experts Debate Merits of Spending to Boost US E

President-elect Barack Obama is proposing an emergency $800 billion economic stimulus plan that would use government spending and taxing power to help pull the faltering U.S. economy out of recession. President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters

VOA标准英语2011--Republicans Soften No-Tax Pledge to Trim US Deficit

Republicans Soften No-Tax Pledge to Trim US Deficit In the U.S. Congress, Republican leaders say they would be willing to break a no-tax pledge as part of a comprehensive deal to reduce Americas massive federal deficit. Signs of possible compromise c

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Tells Lawmakers to Curb Spending

U.S. President Barack Obama says to support economic growth, the government has to be willing to cut spending. He says lawmakers should lead by cutting back federal spending on local projects. President Obama's weekly address to the nation comes as h

VOA标准英语2013--Obama: Spending Cuts Are 'Dumb,' Unnecessary

Obama: Spending Cuts Are 'Dumb,' Unnecessary Obama called the $85 billion in automatic cuts dumb and arbitrary, and he said Republicans could have stopped them. Lets be clear. None of this is necessary. It is happening because [of] a choice that Repu

2007年VOA标准英语-Bush Says He Will Veto 'Excessive Spending'

By Scott Stearns Whtie House 16 June 2007 President Bush says opposition legislators want to raise taxes on Americans, undermining what he says is his pro-growth economic policy. Democrats say they want to help boost economic growth by lowering energ

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Offers Spending Blueprint, But Congress Already Wrote The Check

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What if you spent months working on a household budget only to find that your partner or spouse had already emptied your joint checking account to go on a spending spree? That's kind of what happened to President Trump. The preside

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Strong Economy, Federal Deficit Soars

NOEL KING, HOST: All right. This morning, the Labor Department reported another month of strong job growth. Employers added 157,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9 percent. And of course, we had news last week that the U.S.

Do Nothing' Option for US Deficit Reduction Explored

Hopes were dashed this week for bold congressional action to slow the growth of Americas $15 trillion national debt. A special bipartisan committee failed to agree on ways to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion. But if Congress has shown itself incapab

White House: US Deficit To Rise, Then Fall

President Barack Obamas proposed government budget calls for a slightly higher U.S. deficit for the remainder of this year, then a smaller deficit next year. The president will unveil his budget plan on Monday. An outline of the presidents budget, re

U.S. federal gov't budget deficit tops 260 million dollars in December

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government ran a budget deficit of 260 million U.S. dollars in December, the Treasury Department figures revealed Friday. The federal government raked in a revenue of 269.5 billion dollars in December,

Top GOP senator opposes tax hikes to replace spending cuts

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday said that he opposed raising taxes to solve U.S. government's spending problem and replace the ongoing government's spending cuts. We have a spending addiction in

EU Presses Hungary to Make Further Spending Cuts

The European Union is heightening its pressure on Hungary for reforms, saying that it has failed to effectively control its budget deficit and that its new constitution may be unlawful. EU economy minister Olli Rehn said Wednesday that the Budapest g

Spain Warns Deficit Could Grow

Spain warned Monday that the government's deficit for last year could be even higher than it predicted just days ago. Spain's new conservative government last week projected the 2011 deficit at 8 percent of the country's annual output of goods and se

Obama urges smart government spending cuts

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday urged lawmakers to adopt smart government spending cuts to reduce economic uncertainty and bolster economic growth. The uncertainty caused by the government spending cuts is alread

Time Running Out For US Deficit Reduction Deal

U.S. lawmakers say time is running out for a congressional super committee to identify $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction during the next 10 years. Partisan disagreements remain on how best to improve Americas fiscal health, despite a softening of ri

经济学人:英国税收 去往何处(1)

Britain 英国 Tax: Let me tell you how it would be 税收：去往何处 Whoever wins the next election, taxes are likely to go up. 不管谁当选下任首相，税收都可能提高。 To finance the many costly promises in its manifesto the Labou

奥巴马公布预算计划

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled his 2014 budget Wednesday, aiming to rein in the deficit by raising taxes on the affluent and curbing government spending on programs including Social Security and Medicare. The bl

Spain's Deficit Worsens as Europe Reels into New Year

Spain is getting ready to start the new year with a new round of austerity measures, hoping to contain a growing deficit. The country's new government announced $11.5 billion in fresh spending cuts Friday, saying the budget was in worse shape than th