Obama Releases Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Plan

Jay Carney, White House press secretary, from left, moderates a news conference with Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Jason Furman, chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, Cecilia Munoz, director of President Obama's Domestic Policy Council, and Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council (NEC), at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget request with increased spending for employment, education and job-training programs to boost the economy, financed partly by trimming tax breaks for upper-income families and some businesses. Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images