Budgets & Projections

Today, the Center for American Progress released a plan to get specific on our growing deficits and debt. Or, rather, they've released five...

Commission Can’t Quite Commit – The President’s Fiscal Commission was able to produce a fiscal plan last week that garnered a bipartisan majority of...

In a Heritage Foundation analysis of the President's Fiscal Commission's final plan, Brian Riedl argues that the recommendations have "too much taxes...

Once again, Congress earlier this week had to pass a short-term stop-gap spending measure to keep the lights on. The House and Senate passed a...

Update: 11 out of the commission's 18 members voted to approve of the final proposal. See our release here. The report is titled “ The Moment of Truth...

Update: Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has also decided to support the Fiscal Commission's plan, helping to give the recommendations a bipartisan...

Since the Fiscal Commission released its final report yesterday, CRFB has updated its comprehensive table covering all of the deficit reduction...

Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) has just voted for the Fiscal Commission's final plan. In an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune explaining why he is choosing...

In the wake of the release of the Fiscal Commission’s deficit reduction plan, it’s interesting to note the dichotomy between the focus on deficit...

Today, Andy Stern, a member of the Fiscal Commission, released the 21st Century Plan for America’s Leadership, a proposal to reduce the federal...