Tag: White House

(AP) Pressure mounts to fix health insurance exchangesBy JULIET WILLIAMS and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressThe pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and

Vice President Joe Biden, who previously revealed the location of his own secret bunker and talked of how shotguns are good weapons because you can shoot through doors at intruders, has now been photographed holding a folder labeled “CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT” for all

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has called on Obama administration employees to engage in civil disobedience and allow veterans to access Washington’s World War II memorial during the federal government’s ongoing partial shutdown. Palin wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday that

The official website of the White House is now being used as a partisan outlet for Barack Obama to complain and attack GOP members of Congress for the government shutdown. When visiting the site, a pop-up window titled “Government Shutdown”

Government unions will be pushing hard for furloughed federal employees to receive back pay, according to reports from Fox News. While private sector union representation has dropped to record lows in recent years, government employees are largely represented by unions,

On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder said he would slash his own salary in the case of a government shutdown. On Wednesday, asked if President Obama would do the same, White House press secretary Jay Carney demurred. “”I don’t have

Asked what the point of a meeting between President Obama and Republicans over the government shutdown was if President Obama had no intention of budging on the funding of the government, White House press secretary Jay Carney had no answer.

Asked on Wednesday about World War II veterans seeking to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., closed by order of the Obama administration, White House press secretary Jay Carney said, “We honor our World War II veterans…but

Confronted on why President Obama and Democrats refuse to support standalone funding for reopening national monuments, White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed concerns about that issue, suggesting the entire government had to be funded all at once – even

(AP) Shutdown gives Obama unlikely ally: big businessBy CHARLES BABINGTON and JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONBusiness leaders are taking sides with Democratic President Barack Obama after failing to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown. Obama, whose

(AP) Obama, lawmakers to hold meeting on shutdownBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday as a partial government shutdown entered a second day with little sign of a breakthrough to get hundreds

On Monday, just hours into a government shutdown, the Park Police tried to block access to the WWII memorial. The memorial, which is basically a landscape feature in a public park, was temporarily cut off from veterans of World War

With President Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating down to just 45% after his mishandling of the Syrian crisis, and with CNN reporting that only 39% of Americans support Obamacare, White House officials tell Politico that “Obama doesn’t see any reason

On Tuesday, the House GOP proposed legislation to restore funding for the National Park Service, the Veterans Administration and DC local government, but a united block of Democrats, with the White House’s blessing, blocked the funding. The GOP was trying

The US Treasury said Tuesday that the government shutdown did not affect its position and it would still run out of funds on October 17 without a debt ceiling hike. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told House of Representatives Speaker John