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Cast Your Ballot and SAVE
Posted byon December 18, 2013 at 5:30 PM ESTSince 2009, the President’s SAVE Award has served as an opportunity for frontline Federal workers to offer their ideas on how to make government work smarter for the American people and ensure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely.
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Weekly Address: Time to Replace the Sequester with a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction
Posted byon April 27, 2013 at 4:45 AM ESTPresident Obama says that because Republicans in Congress allowed a series of harmful, automatic budget cuts—called the sequester—to take effect, important programs like Head Start are now forced to reduce their services. After travelers were stuck for hours in airports and on planes this past week, members of Congress passed a temporary band-aid measure to stop the cuts that impact airlines — but they must do more to stop cuts to vital services for the American people. That’s why it’s time for a balanced approach to deficit reduction that makes smarter cuts and reforms in the tax code while creating jobs and strengthening the middle class.
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Weekly Wrap Up: “We Stand Together”
Posted byon March 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM ESTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Weekly Wrap Up: “This is Your Victory”
Posted byon March 8, 2013 at 5:33 PM ESTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Weekly Wrap Up: "Fulfilling Our Obligations"
Posted byon February 22, 2013 at 4:21 PM ESTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Watch: President Obama Answers Your Questions in a Google+ Hangout
Posted byon February 14, 2013 at 9:10 PM ESTWatch the video of President Obama's hangout, live from the West Wing of the White House.
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Weekly Wrap Up: Our People, Our Future
Posted byon January 25, 2013 at 5:12 PM ESTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Spending Less, Spending Smarter
Posted byon September 4, 2012 at 11:31 AM ESTThe Campaign to Cut Waste has already achieved $4 billion dollars in savings in 2012, well on track to meet and exceed President Obama's goal of $8 billion by the end of FY 2013.
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A New Step Forward in Fighting Food Stamp Fraud
Posted byon May 24, 2012 at 12:07 PM ESTUSDA announces a new rule that will help states better identify and prevent fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Weekly Address: A New Chapter in Afghanistan
Posted byon May 5, 2012 at 4:30 AM ESTPresident Obama calls on Congress to take the money we are no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the other half to rebuild America.