Jeff Zients will once again ascend to the role of acting OMB director, according to a blog post on OMB's website. Zients had previously stepped into...

As lawmakers slowly return to town this week and next week, there will be an increasing focus on possible offsets for any extensions to expiring...

Playoffs in Full Swing – The Packers packed it in; the Broncos got busted; the Saints went marching out; and Houston had a problem as the NFL Playoffs...

In last year's State of the Union speech, President Obama promised to reorganize the government by consolidating agencies that had duplicative...

The most recent focus of President Obama's initiatives has been on "insourcing," or providing incentives to companies to bring jobs back to the US...

The Internal Revenue Service report on the 2006 tax gap, showing $385 billion (about 15 percent) of missing revenue, has made its rounds, sparking...

Yesterday, in the preliminary assessment of its 2011 balance sheet, the Federal Reserve reported that it would be sending $77 billion in 2011 profits...

Over the past couple of years, we've been arguing that raising the Social Security and Medicare ages could be an important part of a fiscal reform...

Readers of this blog will be familiar with the Zero Plan from the Fiscal Commission's tax reform effort. An article in the newest issue of Health...

You may have already read the news yesterday, but current OMB director Jack Lew will be replacing Bill Daley as President Obama's chief of staff at...

In 2009, President Obama created the SAVE Award (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency), which is given each year to the federal employee who...

Remember when we said last November that Congress had a lot to do by the end of the year? Well, they took care of FY 2012 appropriations, but...