Other Spending

With the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...

The Center for American Progress' Katherine Blakeley and Lawrence Korb recently issued a report recommending how lawmakers should wind down war...

Year after year, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) refuses to simply give lip service to "wasteful government spending" and has instead called out...

The calendar turns over for the federal government today as FY 2015 is underway. Unlike last year, which started with the government being shut down...

The resolution setting next year's budget continues this year's levels of war spending, despite the fact that the federal government was supposed to...

Here is a link to the Appropriations Watch for FY 2020. Final FY2015 funding was settled through the " CROmnibus" bill in December 2014 and March 2015...

One of the bills to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and overhaul the housing finance system just got a verdict from CBO: it will save $58 billion...

Recent events in Iraq and Syria have raised the prospect of expanding military operations in the region beyond airstrikes. Gordon Adams in a Fiscal...

The Postal Service has been losing money in recent years and has needed to cut back on services and raise stamp prices. However, these latest...

Last night, the Senate passed legislation extending highway funding through December and offsetting the cost with a number of deficit reduction...