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A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...

Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles will be addressing the Associated Press at their annual meeting in Orlando today. The event is co-hosted by...

It's Tax Day, meaning that those who procrastinated spent their weekends trying to work through our overly-complex tax code. The federal code contains...

Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its long-term fiscal outlook, presenting both long-term projections and estimates of...

Much of the early debate surrounding President Obama’s FY 2014 budget concerns his inclusion of the chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI), a more...

As we mentioned on Wednesday, budget season can often be as confusing as it is clarifying. While it would seem that both chambers and the President...

Yesterday, we took our first look at the President's FY 2014 Budget, which put forward the final White House deficit reduction offer to Speaker...

Update: The table and text have been updated to include the baselines in the House and Senate budget resolutions. A common source of confusion when...

While we will have detailed analysis of various parts of the President's budget throughout the week and into next week, it is important to first show...

President Obama has just released his FY 2014 budget proposal, putting forward his last offer in the negotiations leading up to the fiscal cliff, in...

Blossoms– It’s a special time in Washington as the Cherry Blossoms are finally blooming after a long winter. The city itself seemingly comes alive as...

Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its annual report highlighting areas of possible duplication, fragmentation, and overlap in...