A line-by-line budget submission simply allows Congress to distract everyone, including itself, into debates over high visibility-but-small return...

We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...

The Hill points to a press release by Senator (and former OMB director) Rob Portman (R-OH) that claims the upper-income portion of the 2001/2003/2010...

In evaluating the fiscal cliff, it is interesting to see how it compares to past cases where the federal government has rapidly reduced deficits. The...

Today on the Brookings Institution website, CRFB co-chair and former Congressman Bill Frenzel (R-MN) wrote an op-ed about the looming fiscal cliff. In...

Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson appeared alongside Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, discussing the need for Congress to pass a...

The defense portion of the sequester that will hit on January 2 of next year has garnered a lot of attention, but it is not the only part of the...

Today, CBO has released yearly estimates of the long-term budget projections for the Department of Defense. The DoD provides a plan to Congress called...

Much of the focus on budget plans has revolved around the two presidential candidates, but Members of Congress have a tremendous impact on the federal...

As Senator Mark Warner pointed out last week in the Christian Science Monitor, the United States is still in a position where long-term debt reduction...

In light of President Obama reigniting the tax debate yesterday, Dylan Matthews of Wonkblog has a very informative blog post showing the course of tax...