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Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Medicare Sustaintable Growth Rate (SGR) reform bill under consideration...

While considering the FY 2016 budget, the Senate Budget Committee voted on about 50 amendments before passing the budget resolution on a party line 12...

Although the numbers in the budget resolution draw a lot of attention, one of the most impactful parts of the resolution deals with budget process...

In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to...

House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) yesterday released the House Democratic alternative budget, which provides similar...

Now that we have shown that the "doc fix" proposal in the House will likely add to the debt in the longer term – refuting a key argument for not fully...

There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The...

Note: The analysis below is based on an earlier version of the SGR plan, which has since been adjusted to include modestly larger offsets and – more...

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his FY 2016 budget resolution, which prescribes $5.1 trillion of spending cuts to reach...

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) released his FY 2016 budget yesterday, outlining a framework that would significantly reduce the debt...

One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...

This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price released his FY 2016 budget proposal, "A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America." The budget...