Ezra Klein Archive: Wonkbook
Wonkbook: Republicans against entitlement reform (at least right now)
With John Boehner fighting the Democrats' offer to put entitlements and taxes on the table -- "that’s what the next budget process is for," he said -- it's worth stepping back to look at what this continuing resoution fight is...
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| March 11, 2011; 7:15 AM ET |
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Wonkbook: A rough Wednesday for Democrats
Democrats did not have a good Wednesday. In Washington, both the Republican-backed bill to cut $60+ billion from the government's funding for 2011 and the Democratic-backed bill to cut $6 billion from the government's funding for 2011 failed. That was...
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| March 10, 2011; 6:46 AM ET |
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Wonkbook: Democrats want entitlements, taxes, and subsidies on the table
I was wondering when this would finally happen: "Senate Democratic leaders, seeking to break an impasse over Republican-backed spending cuts, on Tuesday proposed broadening the scope of budget negotiations into more politically volatile terrain that includes taxes, subsidies and entitlement...
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| March 9, 2011; 7:22 AM ET |
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Wonkbook: Our last chance to stabilize the housing market
My colleagues Brady Dennis and Dina ElBoghdady got their hands on an early version of the settlement that the country's attorney generals and a few federal agencies are hammering out with the big banks. This is the endgame to...
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| March 8, 2011; 6:29 AM ET |
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Wonkbook: Are we nearing the endgame in Wisconsin?
The Wall Street Journal has a report that quotes extensively from the state's Senate Democrats and suggests they're feeling the pressure to come home. "I think we have to realize that there's only so much we can do as a...
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| March 7, 2011; 5:06 AM ET |
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Wonkbook: The White House makes its first bid
Matthews is writing Wonkbook while Ezra is traveling. Top Stories The White House has offered $6.5 billion in additional spending cuts, report Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane: "The White House proposed Thursday to trim an additional $6.5 billion from federal...
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| March 4, 2011; 8:47 AM ET |
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