Barack Obama, Spending Bill | featured news

President Obama signed a spending bill Tuesday that headed off a government shutdown.

President Obama will propose $17 billion in spending cuts today, less than half of 1% of his budget, including cuts in weapons ...

Obama heads to Congress to sell his massive budget proposal to skeptical lawmakers.

The president, who is about to sign a bill containing earmarks, says legislators should post the spending provisions on their websites and that each earmark should be scrutinized at a public hearing. President Barack Obama spoke against the evils of earmarks today, even as he prepared to sign a massive spending bill loaded with them.

Acknowledging it's an "imperfect" bill, President Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion spending package but insisted it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."

As a spending bill loaded with pork makes its way through Congress, President Obama is getting pushback from members of his own party who are questioning his vow to end wasteful spending.