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Running Down the Checklist: The Defense Authorization
Read moreBefore debating a potential "CRomnibus" bill to fund the government, lawmakers are ready to check one item off their lame-duck to-do list: a defense...
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Another Lame Duck Decision Point: Military Personnel Spending
Read moreCQ is reporting (subscription required) that the main obstacle to the defense appropriations authorization, which must be addressed during the lame...
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Updated ISIS Request Should Set Bar for War Spending
Read moreAs expected, the Obama Administration today issued amendments to its FY 2015 war spending (Overseas Contingency Operations) request, adding $5.6...
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The President's Emergency Funding Request on Ebola
Read moreThe White House this week requested an additional $6.18 billion in discretionary appropriations for the current fiscal year to cover the costs...
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Lame Duck To-Do (and Don't) List
Read moreWith the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...
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CAP Report Warns Against Turning War Spending Into a Slush Fund
Read moreThe Center for American Progress' Katherine Blakeley and Lawrence Korb recently issued a report recommending how lawmakers should wind down war...
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Coburn Publishes Wastebook 2014
Read moreYear after year, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) refuses to simply give lip service to "wasteful government spending" and has instead called out...
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A Drama-Less Happy Fiscal Year!
Read moreThe calendar turns over for the federal government today as FY 2015 is underway. Unlike last year, which started with the government being shut down...
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War Spending Shouldn't Become a Slush Fund
Read moreThe resolution setting next year's budget continues this year's levels of war spending, despite the fact that the federal government was supposed to...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2015
Read moreNote: For the latest fiscal year, click here . Final FY2015 funding was settled through the " CROmnibus" bill in December 2014 and March 2015 Homeland...
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CBO: GSE Reform Saves $58 Billion (Or $7 Billion)
Read moreOne 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...
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Potential ISIS Operation Shows the Value of Fiscal Space
Read moreRecent events in Iraq and Syria have raised the prospect of expanding military operations in the region beyond airstrikes. Gordon Adams in a Fiscal...