Budgets & Projections

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...

With the recent improvement in medium-term budget projections, some are trying to advance the myth that our debt problems have been solved. But as we...

As we continue to approach the October 17 deadline when the Treasury Department estimates that extraordinary measures will be exhausted, leaving...

In an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday, former Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) criticized the current Congress not just for the ongoing...

Last week, we noted that the furlough of "non-essential" employees at the Congressional Budget Office due to the government shutdown could halt the...

As Congress negotiates a proposal to pass a continuing resolution and reopen the government, they may enact other policy at the same time. One such...