Other Spending

The sequester has always been a blunt and mindless way to reduce the deficit, and for the Defense Department, its effects are now clearly being seen...

Up next on the list of Fiscal Speed Bumps is the July 1 deadline upon which the 3.4 percent interest rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to...

After the deadlock last Thursday in the Senate over student loan interest rates, there still appears to be a gap between Democrats and Republicans on...

Although efforts to replace the sequester have been on hold for a while, the House Democrats, led by House Budget Committee ranking member Chris Van...

Update: This blog has been updated to include numbers from the CBO score of the House farm bill. As we have written previously, the American Taxpayer...

Sometimes, the timing of things can really work out in Washington. Yesterday, President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the head of the...

Although most discussion of Erskine Bowles' and Al Simpson's Bipartisan Path Forward has focussed on its health and tax reforms, the plan also...

Over the past few years, lawmakers have made the most progress in discretionary spending in the deficit reduction effort. Additional opportunities for...

It is a well-known fact that the U.S. spends a sizeable amount on defense, more than the next 15 countries combined, including China and Russia. But...

The last Congress attempted to work out a new farm bill but could never reach an agreement. The American Taxpayer Relief Act, the agreement reached...