House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) will discuss budget process reform today at 1 pm ET at a...

Happy Holidaze – The Christmas trees are up. The lights are lit. The shoppers are roaming the malls. The holiday specials are all over the television...

In an op-ed for The Atlantic, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein made the case for offsetting the costs of the payroll tax cut, AMT patch, and...

With so many provisions set to expire at the end of the year, CRFB has released a new paper that details what lawmakers have to extend and how they...

One of the most popular budget gimmicks in Washington right now is the war savings gimmick. Because CBO assumes that discretionary spending grows with...

Today, House Republicans have officially released their plan to extend the current payroll tax holiday for a year, two years of doc fixes, and a year...

As we reported on The Bottom Line the other day, Republican members of the House released a set of 10 pieces of legislation they argue would improve...

This Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates will debate for one of the last times before the Iowa caucuses on January 3...

Ever since the three appropriations bills and the temporary continuing resolution (CR) passed Congress last month, lawmakers have refused to consider...