Budgets & Projections

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...

While we will have detailed analysis of various parts of the President's budget throughout the week and into next week, it is important to first show...

President Obama has just released his FY 2014 budget proposal, putting forward his last offer in the negotiations leading up to the fiscal cliff, in...

Update: The table and text have been updated to include the baselines in the House and Senate budget resolutions. A common source of confusion when...

Late last week, David Rogers of Politico reported that there will indeed be a "second sequester," or a $1 billion scorekeeping adjustment due to OMB's...

It's President's Budget week! On Wednesday, President Obama will release his FY 2014 budget, illustrating another possible path in addition to the...