Jacob J. Lew: “The task before us now is to put political brinkmanship aside and find areas of compromise and common ground.”

We are seeing thousands of people leave Puerto Rico for the mainland, and they are American citizens.

The immediate need is for Congress to pass legislation that will permit them to restructure their debt.

The budget also makes critical investments in our domestic and national security priorities while adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement signed into law last fall.

If you have a house on a block with blighted housing on it, if you do not remove the blighted housing, your chances of staying above water are really tough.