Paul Ryan

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  Social Security, Medicare still face big challenge

  By Tom Raum  |  May 31, 2013

  As the U.S. recovery slowly gathers steam, federal deficits are finally coming down from their nosebleed $1-trillion-plus heights. That will postpone until fall a new budget showdown between Congress and the White House — and also will probably delay the days of reckoning, feared by millions of aging Americans, when...

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  CBO says PPACA repeal will increase deficit

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 15, 2013

  With House Republicans just a day away from voting to seek a repeal of President Obama’s health reform law, congressional budget analysts suggested on Wednesday that repealing the law would increase the deficit.

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  Heritage study sets off immigration bill squabble

  By Erica Werner  |  May 6, 2013

  A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally.

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  Budget battle: 3 plans on the table, what now?

  By Nancy Benac  |  April 25, 2013

  First the Republican-led House approved a federal budget that's heavy on spending cuts. Then the Democratic-controlled Senate approved one that leans more toward tax increases. Then at last, President Barack Obama put out his own budget plan, two months late, coming down someplace in between.

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  Upper-income seniors face Medicare hike

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  April 12, 2013

  President Barack Obama’s new plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retirees.

• House passes GOP budget plan vowing deep cuts

  By Andrew Taylor  |  March 22, 2013

  Moving on two fronts, the Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to keep the government running for the next six months while pushing through a tea-party flavored budget for next year that would shrink the government by another $4.6 trillion over the next decade.

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  House on track to pass budget plan with deep cuts

  By Andrew Taylor  |  March 21, 2013

  A familiar budget plan to sharply cut safety-net programs for the poor and clamp down on domestic agencies performing the nuts-and-bolts programs of the government is cruising to passage in the tea party-flavored House.

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  Obama, GOP in ‘great conversation’ on the Hill

  By Andrew Taylor  |  March 14, 2013

  President Barack Obama said he had "a great conversation" with Senate Republicans on Thursday, the third stop in his ice-breaking tour of the Capitol this week on the budget and other topics.

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  Family matters

  By Denis Storey  |  March 13, 2013

  My father-in-law, by most standards a practical, self-made man, asked me about Medicare this weekend. More specifically, he asked me when he could sign up, what the benefits were and what it might cost him.

• Ryan’s budget would “grind away” Medicare

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  March 12, 2013

  The Medicare Rights Center is crying foul about Rep. Paul Ryan’s House budget proposal released Tuesday morning.