Federal Budget 2012
A look at the president's budget proposals for fiscal 2012
GOP budget plan tackles national debt
House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a plan to resize the federal government and stem the $14 trillion national debt.
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Budget 2012: Agency analysis
Post reporters are scouring the president's budget request and posting their analysis for each agency. They are also marking up the budget document itself with key changes and other findings.
Budget 2012: Deja vu all over again
The players are different and the numbers are larger but the playbook is the same.
The Budget: Agency by agency
Agriculture Department
Commerce Department
Defense Department
Education Department
Energy Department
EPA
Health and Human Services Department
Homeland Security Department
Housing and Urban Development Department
Interior Department
Justice Department
Labor Department
NASA
Social Security Administration
State Department
Transportation Department
Treasury Department
Veterans Affairs Department
Budget gives postal service relief
Obama's proposed 2012 budget attempts to remedy the perilous financial condition of the USPS.
House GOP lights into Lew
House Republicans lit into OMB chief Jacob Lew Tuesday morning, demanding to know why Obama failed to take the advice of his own deficit commission.
GOP plan means pain now, not later
House Republicans want to cut $61 billion from the budget, the most significant cuts in a generation.
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Interactive graphic:
Examining presidential budgets
Here's a look at how President Obama's federal spending compares to his recent predecessors, and how presidential priorities have shifted over time.
Why form a debt commission?
Budget skirts asked-for advice
Many of the major proposals made by the president's 18-member "debt commission" were not included in the 2012 budget.
In third year, Obama proposes
a more modest course
For now, it seems the big legislative presidency is over. The proposals Obama and his team unveiled in his State of the Union address last month and the 2012 budget Monday show a more modest, incremental approach.
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Obama pitches $1.1 trillion in cuts
The president aims to trim record federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the next decade.
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Indiana Gov. Daniels looks at 2012 and decries a 'new red menace'
At this year's CPAC, Daniels talked about what he called the "new red menace," the sea of red ink in Washington that he argued is the greatest threat to the United States' future.
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Archived coverage of President Obama's 2011 budget proposals
Complete coverage of the president's 2011 budget blueprint including analysis, interactive graphics and agency-by-agency breakdowns.
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