Domestic Spending

Both CBO and OMB in the last week released sequestration reports, technical reports that detail whether the government is adhering to discretionary...

After hinting at how they would cut defense spending yesterday, the Obama Administration has given out another small detail of its upcoming budget...

Congress has a long checklist of things it has to do by the end of September. On Tuesday, it informally crossed one thing off when the House passed a...

On OMB's blog, OMB director Jack Lew talked about his instructions to agencies to cut 5 percent off their 2011 budget for their FY 2013 request. In...

Faithful readers of this blog know by now how the trigger contained in the Budget Control Act generally works. The BCA creates a twelve-member Joint...

The caps on discretionary spending were, of course, the concrete centerpiece of last week's budget deal. Considering the importance of the caps, CBO...

Update: CBO has scored Boehner's legislation, showing it to reduce deficits by a total of $850 billion from 2012-2021. The discretionary caps are $1.1...

In this next installment of our FY 2012 appropriations update, we will detail the actions that the House has taken since our last update on May 24...

In the past few days, CBO has released a few documents that might be of interest to budget wonks. The first is a further analysis of the final FY 2011...

Keeping us on the edge of our seats until the very end, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced late Friday night that a deal had been reached on...

Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) have introduced bipartisan legislation that would force Congress to hold an up-or-down vote on...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Let's just go with the worst of times. In a mostly symbolic vote, the Senate failed to adopt...