Domestic Spending

The Hill reports that some lawmakers are supporting a supplemental bill to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)...

As the East Coast and other communities affected by superstorm Sandy begin the work of rebuilding and assisting those who need help, the CRFB and Fix...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) yesterday released his " Wastebook" for 2012, a laundry list of government waste and inefficiency. Coburn finds 100 examples...

Our colleagues Jason Delisle and Alex Holt of the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project have released a new paper "Safety Net or...

Yesterday the group Taxpayers for Common Sense released a report with over $2 trillion in deficit reduction. The report, "Sliding Past the Sequester,"...

Yesterday, a group of farmers and farm state lawmakers gathered in Washington to rally for the passage of a farm bill, on which progress has stalled...

Over the past few days, the Office of Management and Budget is getting to work preparing for the sequester hitting on January 2 of next year. OMB so...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is slated to default on a $5.5 billion dollar payment to the United States Treasury tonight at midnight...

The Urban Institute held an event today (video here) on children and the federal budget, which involved CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and...

The defense portion of the sequester that will hit on January 2 of next year has garnered a lot of attention, but it is not the only part of the...

The latest edition of CQ Weekly has a piece on the " low-hanging fruit" of the budget debate -- provisions that have been proposed or negotiated by...

Correction: The original post incorrectly stated the change that the House bill made to the Standard Utility Allowance. It does adopt the provision...