Budget Process

With the debt ceiling having been reinstated last Friday, lawmakers are scrambling to come up with legislation to lift or suspend it again before...

Yesterday, we updated our Q&A: Everything You Needed To Know About the Debt Ceiling to reflect the newest date for the debt ceiling, which will be...

Note: This blog has been updated to talk about the first blog post in the series. For those in the budget world, today is not just the day after the...

When Congress ended the government shutdown last October, they also suspended the debt ceiling through February 7th, which is now only a week away...

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent a letter to Congress, updating the Treasury's projections of when the nation would hit its statutory...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released their score of the proposal from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to renew extended unemployment...

In recent weeks, we've used our blog to call for strict adherence to pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) principles for extending emergency unemployment benefits...

As budget conference committee chairs Patty Murray and Paul Ryan appear to be moving closer to a partial sequester-replacement deal, reports suggest...

Given the nature of debt ceiling politics lately, estimating when the federal government will start defaulting on obligations has become a common...

The budget conference committee is holding its second hearing this morning as the conferees continue to try and work out a compromise between the...