Appropriations
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Senate Budget Takes Issue with CHIMPs
The Senate budget by Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) contains an important provision to limit a gimmick often used to increase spending using phony savings...
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Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
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Are the Discretionary Spending Caps Sustainable?
The biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending...
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Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy
Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...
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Top 14 Charts About the Budget in 2014
This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a hundred...
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Budget Gimmicks in the CRomnibus Bill
The eagerly awaited $1.1 trillion "CRomnibus" bill was released yesterday, and given its far-reaching nature, many aspects are being scrutinized. From...
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Updated ISIS Request Should Set Bar for War Spending
As expected, the Obama Administration today issued amendments to its FY 2015 war spending (Overseas Contingency Operations) request, adding $5.6...
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The President's Emergency Funding Request on Ebola
The White House this week requested an additional $6.18 billion in discretionary appropriations for the current fiscal year to cover the costs...
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Lame Duck To-Do (and Don't) List
With the 2014 midterm elections mostly in the books, the current Congress will return from weeks of campaigning to finish some remaining items before...
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A Drama-Less Happy Fiscal Year!
The calendar turns over for the federal government today as FY 2015 is underway. Unlike last year, which started with the government being shut down...
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War Spending Shouldn't Become a Slush Fund
The resolution setting next year's budget continues this year's levels of war spending, despite the fact that the federal government was supposed to...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2015
Here is a link to the Appropriations Watch for FY 2020. Final FY2015 funding was settled through the " CROmnibus" bill in December 2014 and March 2015...