Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Blog Posts Tagged 'budget' (19)

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GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell drew much derision, snickers, and ridicule for falling flat in fulfilling his oft repeated goal to make President Obama a one term president. Obama’s smash electoral vote and solid popular vote win made the GOP’s aim seem more comical. The fiscal cliff battle seemed to render it even more absurd. Obama was the big winner. He preserved the Bush tax cuts for the middle and working class,…

Congresswoman Maxine Waters appearing on The Hutchinson Report News Talk Show on Pacifica Radio on Saturday, January 5 hosted by political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson warned that she and other ranking Congressional Democrats will vigorously oppose proposed draconian slashes by GOP House members to vital programs for working persons and the needy. Waters is the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Financial Services Committee. She said that the…

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The last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff brought fiscal relief, but that relief will be short lived. A year ago GOP congressional leaders made clear that if they have their way they will weld the meat ax on vital domestic programs. In March, they will get their chance. This time they have the cover and leverage of the debt ceiling battle, and they will be under even fiercer pressure from conservatives not to make any more…

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President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding or eliminated out right community service block grants that fund an array of community education, health and social service programs in poor, underserved, largely inner-city neighborhoods, cut programs in science, technology, youth mentoring programs, and…

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The conventional political wisdom is that now that President Obama is safely back in the White House and does not have to worry about re-election he can do what  a few other freshly minted second term presidents have done. And that’s take off the gloves and let fly with a series of bold, reform initiatives. FDR, Harry Truman, LBJ, and Bill Clinton did that. Obama gave an early hint that he may be more aggressive in…

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Despite tepid and cautious remarks from a handful of GOP congressional leaders and commentators that they are open to compromise on the Bush tax cuts and revenue raising measures, President Obama will still have a huge fight on his hands getting his tax proposals passed.  The hard truth is that the pummeling the GOP got in the election hasn’t moved them one inch from their stuck in cement tax orthodoxy…

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In an apparent off the cuff remark, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan gushed that he thought it was a “cool thing” that an African-American was president. But Ryan’s rapture with President Obama didn’t last past the first sentence. In the next breath…

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The great fear a year ago when President Obama unveiled his budget for 2012 was that he caved to the GOP and Tea Party hardliners and meat axed dozens of vital programs and agencies. They included community service block grants which fund an array of community education, health and social service programs in poor, underserved,…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles on July 29, Valerie Jarrett, Senior White House Advisor

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In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles on April 22, William G. Gale, Co-Director of the Tax Policy Institute.

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In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report on KPFK 90.7 FM-Los Angeles and streamed on kpfk.org, Saturday, April 2, Noon to 1 PM, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks out on the massive congressional budget cuts and their impact on urban communities. Waters tells what Congressional Democrats will and are doing to…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles and the Hutchinson Report Communications Network on February 18, Congressman Ron Kind, Democrat from Wisconsin, Member of House Ways and Means Committee and Co-Chair of the New Democratic Coalition.

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In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on KTYM 1460 AM Radio, WFAX 1220 AM Washington DC, and The Hutchinson Communications Network broadcast in 70 cities nationally and streamed globally on…