Budgets & Projections

Last week we issued an analysis of the fiscal framework that President Obama recently unveiled. We noted that, while it was a strong step in the right...

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), proposed adding a "deficit cap" to forthcoming legislation to increase the debt ceiling. While...

Yesterday, CBO released a report on the effect of automatic stabilizers on the deficit, showing that in recent years, they have added hundreds of...

Yesterday, CRFB released an analysis of President Obama's new deficit reduction framework meant to save $4 trillion dollars over 12 years. Using CBO's...

This morning, CRFB released a paper analyzing President Obama's new budget framework which the President laid out last week in a speech at the George...

As we have been looking at a number of fiscal plans for the US recently, the IMF has a useful appendix in its most recent Fiscal Monitor on what has...

The Congressional Budget Office has released its full analysis of President Obama's FY 2012 budget request. While the new report goes into greater...

Last night, Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) withdrew from consideration his substitute amendment to the FY 2012 budget resolution that will be voted on...

The House and Senate today approved of legislation funding the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, ratifying the agreement reached...

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, has released his own budget proposal to counter that of Committee...

Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), a liberal group of Democrats in the House, released its own FY 2012 budget, "The People's Budget,"...