Appropriations

Policymakers recently announced an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government for the remaining six months of Fiscal Year 2018. The bill funds...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...

Trillion-dollar deficits will return next year, and a budget deal in the coming weeks could make them much worse. The continuing resolution (CR) that...

Lawmakers came to a bipartisan agreement to end the federal government shutdown yesterday, but it came with a very high price. The continuing...

The appropriations season is moving forward before Congress has passed a budget. Below, we explain how that can happen. Typically, Congress is...

Both the House (by a 309-118 vote) and the Senate (by a 79-18 vote) have passed the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations bills, which funds the government...

Congress is expecting a request from the Trump Administration for $12 to $15 billion in supplemental appropriations to fund the construction of a...

Currently, Congress is debating if and how to provide emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. While the President has requested $1.9 billion in...

This year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...

With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end...

Here we go again, again. With government funding set to expire at the end of the week and no deal on the table, it is possible that the government...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 is now the law of the land. While the law does not necessarily prevent a government shutdown, it does raise the...