Other Spending

Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...

Impasses and showdowns have become the norm over the past few years, and it is turning out to be no different with student loans. For background, in...

This week’s The Economist offers another analysis of the end-of-year fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts that the United States faces...

Update: CBO has posted scores for the Energy and Commerce and Oversight bills. They would save $113 billion and $83.3 billion, respectively, over ten...

Matt Miller and Ezra Klein wrote op-eds on Wednesday with a very similar message: neither party is doing themselves or the country any favor with...

The Simpson-Bowles alternative budget resolution put forward this week by Representatives Cooper, LaTourette, Schrader, Bass, Quigley, Dold and Costa...

One of the more complicated aspects of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget is what he does with the sequester that will take effect on January 2, 2013 due...

Yesterday, the Senate passed a two-year $109 billion transportation bill by a 74-22 vote. Since 2009, when the last five-year transportation bill...

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) disapproves of the current debate on the transportation bill that is being considered. He...

With CBO recently having scored President Obama's 2013 Budget Request, included within the total score is a score of a policy known as capping...

Continuing on in our blog series, we will be discussing discretionary spending proposals in the President's budget. The FY 2013 budget was notable for...

Military pensions for high-ranking officers are going up significantly, according to a USA Today article. Due to a change in the Defense Authorization...