FY 2016 Budget

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 budget deficit totaled $587 billion, according to the final data from the Treasury Department. Although this is nearly 60...

With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end...

With the first session of the the 114th Congress rapidly drawing to a close and the big budget issues being settled, we will take a look at how the...

The negotiations that concluded this week produced two major pieces of legislation. The most consequential for the budget is the $680 billion package...

The recently-enacted budget deal does not offset its ten-year cost like advocates have claimed, but what about the longer-term impact? The deal...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law earlier this week, is fully offset over the next ten years, according to the scoring conventions of...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 is now the law of the land. While the law does not necessarily prevent a government shutdown, it does raise the...

The recently-introduced Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 tackles a laundry list of items that lawmakers needed to address over this Congress, including...

Lawmakers are currently considering a budget deal that would increase appropriated spending, suspend the debt limit until March 2017, reallocate...

Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial board wrote a piece praising the sequester plan that Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) released last week. The...

Recent press reports indicate that the ongoing budget negotiations between Congressional leaders and the White House may lean on the use of the...

The Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this week posted a draft bill that would extend government funding until December 11 and avert a...