Appropriations
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What’s in the Senate’s Concurrent FY 2025 Budget?
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee unveiled its proposed concurrent Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution yesterday, setting the stage for reconciliation...
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The House’s $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts Should Be an Absolute Minimum
Read moreThe reconciliation instructions in the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution – which allow up to $2.8 trillion of net borrowing through 2034...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2025
Read moreUpdated 3/19/25: On March 14, the Senate passed a final continuing resolution to extend government funding through the end of the fiscal year, thereby...
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What's in the House's Full-Year Continuing Resolution?
Read moreUpdate (3/13/2025): This piece has been updated to include an estimate of the Changes in Mandatory Programs (CHIMPs) without outlay savings, which...
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Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
Read moreDiscretionary funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will expire on March 14, and Congress has so far enacted zero of the 12 full-year appropriations bills...
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Lawmakers Add $380 Billion to the Debt in the Final Hours of 2024
Read moreWith the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt...
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Congress Should Avoid a Costly End-of-Year Package
Read moreWith debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already...
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Bipartisan Fiscal Forum Leaders Letter Calls to Address Debt
Read moreBipartisan Fiscal Forum co-chairs Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) and Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) recently led a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)...
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Tentative Senate Appropriations Deal Would Undermine Bipartisan Deficit Reduction
Read moreAccording to press reports , Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) have reached a tentative deal to...
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Appropriations 101
Read moreWhat are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate appropriations? How are...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2024
Read moreUpdated 4/24/2024: On Tuesday, April 23, the Senate passed a package of national security-oriented bills passed by the House on Saturday, April 20...
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What's in the Latest House National Security Supplementals?
Read moreThe House of Representatives is set to soon vote on a series of national security-related supplemental appropriations bills. Three of the bills...