Friday at 11:59 PM, sequestration officially began, triggering sharp across-the-board cuts without much progress on bipartisan replacement plan. Our...

In a move that had been anticipated for a while, the Obama Administration has nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next OMB director. Jeff...

We brought up a couple of weeks ago that there were a number of plans to replace the sequester for either a year or permanently. Now, CBO has given us...

Throughout the week we have been breaking down the new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, " 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal...

We've written extensively on the chained CPI, which represents both a more accurate measure of inflation and a policy change which would result in...

We've said frequently on this blog that controlling health care spending will be a crucial part of putting the debt on a sustainable path. After all...

Our fourth blog on "15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget," a new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton project examines national disaster...

Tax expenditures have been a hot topic lately as a way to raise additional revenue for a deficit reduction plan that could replace sequestration...

We have been working our way through the “15 Ways to Rethink the Budget” report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. Previously, we...

We've talked a great deal about how sequestration is bad policy, but that the worst outcome would be to cancel the sequester without offsets. In the...

As promised, the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project has released the remaining papers in its series " 15 Ways to Rethink the Budget." We will be...