Obama Budget Marks Large Ideological Swing

On February 28, 2009, in Barack Obama, by Federal Voting

Battle lines are rapidly hardening over the broad policy shifts, massive deficits and tax increases President Obama unveiled last week in his first budget request, a 10-year spending plan thick with political friction points. Yesterday, the president …

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