FY 2016 Budget

CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...

As we move past the midpoint of 2015, several fiscal deadlines are fast approaching. Congress is preparing to act on two important Fiscal Speed Bumps...

The Congressional budget resolution proposes to bring the budget into balance by reducing spending $5.3 trillion over the next decade while keeping...

The budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...

During the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...

Yesterday, we discussed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference, where we showed how the budget conference agreement was a mixed bag...

With the budget conference complete, it is now up to each chamber of Congress to pass the FY 2016 concurrent budget resolution. We've already written...

Congress sped through this year's second and third " Fiscal Speed Bumps" in March, ignoring the return of the statutory debt limit (though the hard...

The House Appropriations Committee kicked off appropriations season this week by starting to mark up their Fiscal Year 2016 bills at the same time...

We published a paper with our partners at Fix the Debt last week to help answer questions about the budget conference committee that met for the first...

The House and Senate are going to a conference committee to reconcile the differences between their budget resolutions, but legislative developments...

The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...