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CBO released its new budget and economic outlook, showing slightly higher ten-year deficit and debt projections from 2012-2021 than the last ten-year...

CBO has a new report out, comparing federal and private-sector compensation for employees. The report shows that, on average, federal employees are...

Super Not So Duper – The word “super” has lost its luster lately. The failure of the Super Committee and the need for a super majority in the Senate...

The report by the Inspector General of TARP drew some attention for showing that some of its programs would not end until 2017. That in itself is no...

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fleshed out the widely-anticipated FY 2013 defense budget. The budget showed to some extent how the Obama...

As we mentioned in our press release earlier this week, the House Budget Committee has been working on legislation to reform the current budget...

Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...

With Congress back in session this week, there is a renewed focus on several provisions that lawmakers extended for two-months in December and which...

President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night. The election-year speech contained a laundry list of proposals aimed to...

President Obama's State of the Union address next Tuesday is now only a couple days away. In anticipation of the President's speech, we at CRFB have...

Today, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas testified to the House Rules subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process on HR 114, a biennial budgeting...

President Obama will be addressing the nation at 9 pm ET tonight for the annual State of the Union address, and CRFB will be active as well, live...