Budgets & Projections

As part of the bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default, a budget conference was established. The purpose of this conference...

With a deal on the appropriations bill last week, the government has been reopened and a default has been avoided. But the reality is that lawmakers...

The first official meeting of the conference committee is expected to occur sometime next week, at which point the conferees will begin attempting to...

The Campaign to Fix the Debt has recently released the results of a new national telephone poll that found broad support for a comprehensive deficit...

Now that the government shutdown and debt default threat are in the rearview mirror (for now), analysts have been taking time to survey the economic...

Recent reports have suggested the new budget conference committee may focus its attention of a deal to replace sequestration. A recent paper from the...

In additional to reopening the government and suspending the debt ceiling, last night, both the House and Senate agreed to go to Budget Conference...

After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...

Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...