“Budget” on The Daily Caller

During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich made some surprising comments about the professional analysts whose data he once relied upon as Speaker of the House. (more)

Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, the president of the freshman House Republican class, is pressing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats to pass a budget, arguing that they “couldn’t run a hot dog stand this way.” (more)

Freshman Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, gathering with a group of his first-term House colleagues, demanded that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate “get off their rear ends” and pass a budget. The group of GOP House freshmen called this a “basic legislative responsibility” that Reid has ignored for 888 days. (more)

Republican opposition to the Obama administration’s spending plan threatens the lives of cops and firefighters, Vice President Joe Biden alleged today as he touted the White House’s new $447 billion jobs bill. (more)

The Obama administration is criticizing the United Nations for high personnel costs and is calling for a “line-by-line” review of the international body’s budget. (more)

Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut are pressing the deficit-reduction supercommittee to make substantial cuts to Medicare, reports The Hill. (more)

For months now, there has been a lot of discussion inside the beltway about coming to a “grand bargain” that will solve our nation’s economic woes in one fell swoop. Many look to how we responded during past economic struggles in the hopes that history will be our guide. I’m not sure the answer lies in our past, but history can certainly serve as a starting point in negotiations for members of the so-called Super Committee who recently started their work. (more)

The rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating for the first time ever, Friday night. (more)

Sarah Palin knocked presidential candidate Mitt Romney for waiting until the debt-ceiling compromise was a “done deal” before speaking out against it. (more)

Congress could create an off-budget “Warrior Fix” to defuse deep Pentagon spending cuts if there’s a November deadlock in the 12-member Joint Committee of Congress created by the debt ceiling deal signed into law today. (more)

BREAKING UPDATE: President Obama has signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 into law. (more)

A majority of Americans believe their elected officials in Washington behaved like spoiled children in the waning days of debt ceiling negotiations, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday. (more)

Daily Caller Senior Editor Jamie Weinstein appears on “Hannity” to talk the debt agreement, unhappiness on the left, the potential for American decline in the 21st century and much more. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency legislation to allow the government to borrow more money headed toward passage in the Senate Tuesday with just hours to spare before the national debt bumps against its ceiling. Expected approval sends the bill to President Barack Obama, averting a potentially disastrous, first-ever government default and making a down payment toward taming out-of-control budget deficits. (more)