Papers

View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.

Jul 22, 2015

Report: Analysis of the 2015 Social Security Trustees' Report

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial health of the programs. Although these projections...

Jun 25, 2015

Budgets & Projections

The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening Statutory Budget Enforcement

For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page.

Jun 16, 2015

Budgets & Projections

Report: The 2015 CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook

Jun 9, 2015

Budgets & Projections

Avoiding Budget Gimmicks Chartbook: 2015

For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page. A previous...

May 21, 2015

Other Spending

Op-Ed: Paving the Way for Sustainable Highway Financing

RealClearPolicy | May 21, 2015 Congress faces yet another deadline, and yet again is set to stall. This time, there literally could be a bumpy road...

May 13, 2015

Other Spending

The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending

The current legislation authorizing highway and mass transit spending is scheduled to expire at the end of May, and only a few months later the...

May 7, 2015

Health Care

Taxes

Health, Revenue, and Other Mandatory Spending Options

May 4, 2015

Budgets & Projections

Budget Process

Updated Appropriations 101

Note: This paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal government...