CNN 2010-01-30

Well, the big question for most taxpayers, are we getting the most bang out of our buck? Our next guest says that the answer to that is a big fat costly no. Jeffrey Miron has some pretty impressive credentials. He's a visiting professor in the Depart

VOA慢速英语2011--US Congressional Committee Fails to Identify Budget Cuts

Economics Report - US Congressional Committee Fails to Identify Budget Cuts This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. An American congressional committee reported failure earlier this week. The committee failed in its effort to cut the federa

VOA标准英语2010年-Britain Makes Huge Cuts to Avert Debt

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne holds his Budget Box as he poses for the media outside his official residence at 11 Downing Street in central London, 22 Jun 2010 Britain's new coalition government has passed an emergency budget a

VOA标准英语2011--Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Prote

Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Protests Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece, ther

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2013--Washington Week: Focus on Effects of Automatic Spending Cuts

Washington Week: Focus on Effects of Automatic Spending Cuts With President Obama and Congress unable to agree on alternatives to across-the-board cuts, the American people are weighing in on Washingtons unending budgetary drama. It is just ridiculou

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

VOA标准英语2013--US Cities Brace for Mandatory Government Spending Cuts

US Cities Brace for Mandatory Government Spending Cuts Air traffic controllers at the Frederick, Maryland, municipal airport guide pilots around the busy airspace. But, under the spending cuts known as sequestration, this control tower, like many at

美国国家公共电台 NPR White House Proposes Deep Cuts To Safety Nets With 'Taxpayer First' Budget Plan

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration has been dogged by controversy for the past few weeks, but now, even as the president is traveling overseas, his administration is proceeding with the business of government. It's presenting the 2018 budg

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

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

Obama says gov't spending cuts hurt families

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said that the ongoing government spending cuts will hurt U. S. families and slow the nation's economic growth. The government should manage the spending cuts as best we can, try to

Obama decries spending cuts, offers no long-term plan

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S.

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

Obama calls for ending govt spending cuts to grow economy

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- One week after the federal government spending cuts took effect, U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to end the spending cuts to bolster the country's economic growth and job creation. We learned

英闻天下——348 US Gov't Spending Cuts Loom This Friday

From tomorrow the U.S-government is going to be forced to begin slashing some 85-billion dollars from its federal budget, if a deal to avoid the sequestration can't be found. US-President Barack Obama has been making a series of public appearances, w

Lew sworn in as U.S. Treasury Secretary

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- In a ceremony hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday, Jacob Lew was sworn into office as the 76th U.S. Treasury Secretary, the Treasury Department said. The oath of office was administered by V

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

英闻天下——302 Spending Cuts Would Undermine US Diplomacy

US Secretary of State John Kerry has joined a chorus of other Obama cabinet ministers in warning of the impending budget cuts, which are set to kick in this coming month. Kerry says the looming sequestration will undermine U.S. diplomacy. I'm particu