Note: For the latest fiscal year, click here . Final FY2015 funding was settled through the " CROmnibus" bill in December 2014 and March 2015 Homeland...

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...

Tax breaks for homeowners are one of the largest categories of tax breaks offered by the federal government. A new report by the Corporation for...

One of the biggest stories in CBO's August budget update was the huge downward revision to expected spending on interest to service the debt, down by...

The Council on Foreign Relations has released a new report and scorecard comparing the United States federal debt situation to other G-7 countries...

Prior to the release of CBO's August baseline, we surmised that one of the revisions to the budget would come from Medicare, whose growth in 2014 had...

CBO’s baseline budget projections are often referred to as “current law” since they generally assume Congress continues the laws as they are written...

In a highly anticipated release, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week released updated data and projections on National...

With the economy recovering slower than originally anticipated, the government now expects to collect significantly less revenue this decade than it...

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

CBO's recent budget projections reaffirm that our debt problems are significant. Entitlements are projected to grow, as a result of a retiring...

CBO's latest budget projections, while a slight improvement, are not good news for the country's fiscal future. Debt is higher than at any time in our...