Budgets & Projections

This blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...

Although the primary purpose of a budget resolution is to set spending and revenue levels to govern the consideration of legislation by Congress, it...

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget would substantially reduce deficits and debt over ten years, but one remaining question is what the...

Much of the focus in House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget inevitably falls on the changes it it would make to mandatory spending, of...

A new feature of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) FY 2015 budget is assumption of a "fiscal dividend," which reflects the economic...

This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his FY 2015 budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity." The budget reaches balance in...

With the medium-term economic and budget outlook weaker than last year, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) goal of reaching a balanced budget by...

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his FY 2015 budget today, outlining a series of changes that promise to reduce the debt as a...

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this morning on " Why Debt Matters," which included testimony by Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, former...

As we showed last week, OMB projections show the President's budget will put the debt on a downward path this decade with deficits below 2 percent of...

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) kicked off the Congressional budget season last week by releasing its " Better Off Budget." This release...

To bolster their case against offsetting the high cost of SGR reform, many have claimed that the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is “ budget...