Other Spending

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its Monthly Budget Review for March, rounding out the first half of Fiscal Year 2015. The report...

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) wrote a commentary published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he decried the recently-passed budgets in the...

With the Murray-Ryan deal expiring at the end of September, the sequester will once again be a hot topic as lawmakers will be prompted to deal with...

A big discussion has ensued in both the House and Senate about defense spending, and for the FY 2016 budget, that has meant how much to increase war...

In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to...

There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The...

One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...

Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...

President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time, though...

Last week, the Heritage Foundation released the Budget Book, a catalog of 106 ways to cut the budget or reduce the size of government totaling roughly...

In a commentary published on Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip wrote about President Obama’s budget and the declaration that it is moving away...

After a more than a year-long process, the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission released its final report yesterday...