Bloomberg reports that Peter Orszag is pretty set on leaving the cabinet, and that President Obama has appealed on him to stay: April 22 (Bloomberg) — White House Budget Director Peter Orszag was poised to become the first member of Barack Obama’s Cabinet to leave, as early as this summer. Then came an appeal from [...]

Congressional appropriators are highly unlikely to go along with the President’s spending freeze idea. I know this because they’ve told me so. House Democrats are rejecting an idea floated by the Obama administration to freeze or cut discretionary spending in 2011. Key members of the House Appropriations and Budget committees told The Hill this month [...]

The New York Times has picked up the continuing story over the Washington Post/Fiscal Times content sharing agreement, and the subsequent controversy: Facing criticism for publishing the work of a start-up news organization, The Washington Post said Tuesday that it should have disclosed more about the group’s financier and his connections, and the paper’s ombudsman [...]

I was on a conference call with White House budget director Peter Orszag and Office of Health Reform chief Nancy-Ann DeParle today, and both of them were adamant that the health care reform moving through Congress would cut costs over the long term and “move us into the future of health care,” as Orszag put [...]