Budgets & Projections

Update: The Senate Appropriations Committee has released its companion CR/appropriations bill package with total funding at the same level as the...

The last Congress attempted to work out a new farm bill but could never reach an agreement. The American Taxpayer Relief Act, the agreement reached...

On Friday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its latest detailed report of how the cuts in sequestration will be allocated. The...

Friday at 11:59 PM, sequestration officially began, triggering sharp across-the-board cuts without much progress on bipartisan replacement plan. Our...

In a move that had been anticipated for a while, the Obama Administration has nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next OMB director. Jeff...

We brought up a couple of weeks ago that there were a number of plans to replace the sequester for either a year or permanently. Now, CBO has given us...

Our fourth blog on "15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget," a new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton project examines national disaster...

Today, the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will be kicking off its " 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget" project with an event on two...

On Tuesday, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a framework that calls for an additional $2.4 trillion in...

Yesterday, we highlighted the consensus between economists and leaders in both parties on the need to replace the sequester. Today, a USA Today poll...

With the March 1 deadline of sequestration only nine days away, lawmakers should work toward developing a plan that would replace the across-the-board...