Defense

Updated 1/23/26: On January 22, the House passed two separate funding bills. One would provide full-year Defense, Labor, HHS, Education...

Without further appropriations, the federal government faces a partial government shutdown on January 30 as the continuing resolution (CR) funding...

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump called for increasing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 defense budget to $1.5 trillion, rather than $1 trillion he...

Updated 7/31/25: On July 24, President Trump signed a recissions package which rescinds $9 billion in federal funding that had previously been...

Note: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The...

The Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The table below is a...

As it currently stands, the Senate reconciliation bill is likely to add $3.5 to $4.2 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, based on our...

Note: (06/23/2025) Some categorizations and numbers in the Ways and Means' section of the table below have been updated to more accurately reflect the...

Update (4/11/2025): The Senate adopted the budget described below on April 5, 2025, and the House adopted the budget on April 10, 2025, making this...