President's Budget

The President has released a preview of the spending priorities in his FY17 budget, most of which are new although some were proposed in previous...

CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...

Lawmakers often lament the difficulty of reforming Medicare and other health care programs, but the difficulty is not a lack of viable options. One...

With budget consideration underway this week, the House has passed its own resolution and rejected several proposed alternatives, while the Senate...

We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages...

CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and methods to re-estimate the budget. While CBO reveals...

We've written extensively about the President's budget since it was released, both in our analysis of the budget and in our blog series. Also notable...

The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget, a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...

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...

In addition to a paper and blog series on the President's budget, CRFB has created a number of tables, graphs, and charts focused on specific aspects...

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...