Obama’s Budget: Beyond the Boldness, Nuggets With G.O.P. Appeal
President Obama on Monday released an aggressive $4 trillion budget blueprint for next year that proclaims victory in the long, difficult climb from recession and relies on large tax increases to fund efforts in education, infrastructure construction and work force development that he says have waited far too long.
The fiscal 2016 budget rests on two major presidential pushes that have virtually no chance in Congress: large tax increases on multinational corporations and the rich, and the passage of a comprehensive immigration law that would lift the economy with millions...