Budgets & Projections

The chance that some type of bipartisan commission will be created to address the nation’s long-term fiscal challenges increased significantly this...

Differing views on creating a deficit commission were aired at a Capitol Hill forum yesterday sponsored by the Cato Institute. The proposal, which is...

The House has been extremely busy today, not only passing a $154 billion jobs bill but also passing a temporary continuing resolution, the defense...

Earlier this year the White House created a contest for federal employees that was focused on producing real ideas that would yield monetary savings...

General Motors and Wells Fargo have both just announced that they intend to repay all of the $6.7 billion and $25 billion, respectively, in...

Warning that the out-of-control federal debt places the economic future of our nation at risk, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform this...

The House passed a bill yesterday containing six of the appropriations bills still lingering in Congress, at a total cost of $447 billion. On Monday...

Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and ranking Republican Judd Gregg (R-NH) today introduced legislation to create an 18 member...

There's an intriguing passage in the White House press release on President Obama's stimulus speech at Brookings yesterday: " An overall approach to...

Secretary Geithner recently said that the Administration will outline its exit strategy for TARP in the next few weeks, but the expiration date has...