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President Obama signs the health care bill in the White House on March 23, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obamacare architect: We passed law due to ‘stupidity of the American voter’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with financial regulators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. From left, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Mel Watt, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Richard Cordray, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, Treasury SecretaryJacob Lew, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Jo White, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Tim Massad, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg, Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin, White House Council Neil Eggleston, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jason Furman, Obama, Budget Director Shaun Donovan, Deputy Budget Director Brian Deese, and Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Seth Wheeler. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Feds run $486B deficit in 2014 — smallest of Obama administration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

LAMBRO: Clinging to a tax-and-spend doctrine

By Donald Lambro

President Obama is poised to notch the lowest deficit of his six-year tenure at just more than a half-trillion dollars, but more financial pain lies ahead. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Federal deficit to drop this year, but financial pain will return: budget office

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on failing Obama economic policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: An economic era defined by slowdown

By Donald Lambro

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: A minimum-wage hike that does maximum harm

By Armstrong Williams

President Barack Obama, flanked by National Economic Council Director Jeff Zients, left, and senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett, meets with with company executives and their small business suppliers to talk about the economy, Friday, July 11, 2014, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Debt from Obama administration will lead to big federal deficits: CBO

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican was shocked at the Congressional Budget Office's cost estimate to fix the VA, calling it "grotesquely out of line."

VA fix could cost billions

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 9, 2013. (Associated Press)

Lawmakers talk cost of VA reform bills in early negotiations

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, says he's hopeful the veterans health care bill the Senate passed Wednesday will be reconciled quickly with a similar measure passed unanimously by the House. (Associated press photographs)

House, Senate to begin negotiations on final vets bill

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Stingy Congress finds funds for veterans’ health care

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Elizabeth Warren is a favorite of progressives who have gravitated toward her populist message. The senator from Massachusetts is tied in polls with the vice president in Iowa. (Associated Press)

BURKE: Elizabeth Warren leaves taxpayers on hook for more student loan subsidies

By Lindsey M. Burke

Illustration on Obama's policy left turn by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

YOUNG: Leftward, ho: Obama unlikely to stop portside push

By J.T. Young

Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, took his final crack at a budget last week when the House cleared his 2015 plan, which again calls for holding revenue steady while making deep cuts to both annual discretionary spending and to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Those cuts would bring the budget into balance in 2024. (Associated Press)

CBO shows it’s Paul Ryan 4, Obama 0 on budget targeting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Report projects health care costs to dip slightly

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

CBO: Deficits to drift lower on lower health costs

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

FILE - This March 4, 2014 file photo shows copies of President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed fiscal 2015 budget set out for distribution on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Congressional Budget Office releases its analysis of President Barack Obama's 2015 budget proposal, including the effects of the insurance coverage provisions of the health law, along with updated 10-year projections of federal spending, revenues and deficits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obamacare costs drop, helps improve deficit picture

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Copies of President Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2015 budget are set out for distribution by Senate Budget Committee Clerk Adam Kamp, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. President Barack Obama is unwrapping a nearly $4 trillion budget that gives Democrats an election-year playbook for fortifying the economy and bolstering Americans' incomes. It also underscores how pressure has faded to launch bold, new attacks on federal deficits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Feds run $413 billion deficit at halfway point of fiscal year

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times