Budgets & Projections

Today in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein took the " Deficit Challenge", proposing his own plan on how to reduce future deficits through a...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its Monthly Budget Review late last week. CBO reports that the federal government incurred a deficit of...

The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...

Super Saver Cashes In – Those who couldn’t resist the irony of betting it all on a horse named Super Saver were rewarded handsomely on Saturday as the...

Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...

In an article today from Huffington Post, Hue and Cry, Former South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings takes aim at organizations, experts, and...

The Blue Dog coalition is pushing for further spending cuts beyond what is in the President’s and Senate’s budget proposals.

In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...

Concluding earlier this afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid the...

The President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform kicks off today with its first meeting to discuss the country's long-term...

Budget Resolution Drafted – The NFL isn’t the only entity that made key decisions for the future last week. On Thursday the Senate Budget Committee...

GM has been getting some prominent press coverage over the past few days, following their repayment of $4.7 billion to the Treasury on Tuesday. The...