Budgets & Projections

Earlier today, Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a new comprehensive debt reduction plan with $2.5 trillion of...

Today, the former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Erksine Bowles, released " A Bipartisan Path Forward to...

Our next blog post in our series analyzing the President's budget will look at where the budget leaves revenue and spending by the end of the decade...

Included in the President’s FY 2014 budget proposal is a $400 billion package of health care savings. As we described in our analysis of his budget...

Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...

A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...

As we mentioned on Wednesday, budget season can often be as confusing as it is clarifying. While it would seem that both chambers and the President...

Much of the early debate surrounding President Obama’s FY 2014 budget concerns his inclusion of the chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI), a more...

Yesterday, we took our first look at the President's FY 2014 Budget, which put forward the final White House deficit reduction offer to Speaker...