Obama to nominate Walmart’s Burwell as White House budget chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate Walmart’s philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Monday to become director of the White House budget office, a White House official said on Sunday.
Burwell, 47, is a veteran of Bill Clinton’s White House and for the past year has been president of the Walmart Foundation at the corporation’s Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters. The charity organization in 2011 gave out nearly $1 billion in corporate contributions to projects around the world such as fighting hunger and empowering women.
Obama to nominate Walmart’s Burwell as White House budget chief: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Burwell, 47, is a veteran of Bill Clinton’s White House and has helped steer philanthropic efforts while at Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Am reporting with @steveholland1 that Obama to announce his choice of Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell as OMB director Monday
Spending cut showdown threatens Obama’s second-term agenda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Just hours after across-the-board spending cuts officially took effect, President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to work with him on a compromise to halt a fiscal crisis that threatens the economy and his broader domestic policy agenda.
The failure by Obama and Republicans to agree to halt the $85 billion “sequester” cuts virtually guaranteed that fiscal issues would remain center stage in Washington for weeks, crowding out Obama’s proposals to reform immigration, tighten gun laws and raise the minimum wage.
Spending cut debate casts pall over Obama’s second-term agenda
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Just hours after
across-the-board spending cuts officially took effect, President
Barack Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to work with him on a
compromise to halt a fiscal crisis that threatens the economy
and his broader domestic policy agenda.
The failure by Obama and Republicans to agree to halt the
$85 billion ‘sequester’ cuts virtually guaranteed that fiscal
issues would remain center stage in Washington for weeks,
crowding out Obama’s proposals to reform immigration, tighten
gun laws and raise the minimum wage.
Obama: could not avoid weighing in on gay marriage court case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday he felt compelled to weigh in on a California same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court because of his and society’s “profoundly positive” evolution on gay rights.
Obama’s administration on Thursday filed a brief urging the court to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California, which banned them in a 2008 voter-approved measure known as Proposition 8.
Fiscal talks fail, U.S. stumbles toward steep budget cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government stumbled headlong on Friday toward wide-ranging spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nation’s economic recovery, after President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to find an alternative budget plan.
The inflexible plan, locked in during a bout of deficit-reduction fever in 2011, initiates time-released cuts that can only be halted by agreement between Congress and the White House.
2 minute warning until the start of Obama’s remarks
Looks like the meeting did not go well. Obama is going to make a statement at 11:35. Boehner already spoke to reporters.
The meeting over the sequester at the White House has officially started.
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