Budget Process

Note: This blog has been updated to talk about the first blog post in the series. For those in the budget world, today is not just the day after the...

When Congress ended the government shutdown last October, they also suspended the debt ceiling through February 7th, which is now only a week away...

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew sent a letter to Congress, updating the Treasury's projections of when the nation would hit its statutory...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released their score of the proposal from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to renew extended unemployment...

In recent weeks, we've used our blog to call for strict adherence to pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) principles for extending emergency unemployment benefits...

As budget conference committee chairs Patty Murray and Paul Ryan appear to be moving closer to a partial sequester-replacement deal, reports suggest...

Given the nature of debt ceiling politics lately, estimating when the federal government will start defaulting on obligations has become a common...

The budget conference committee is holding its second hearing this morning as the conferees continue to try and work out a compromise between the...

As part of the bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default, a budget conference was established. The purpose of this conference...

With President Obama's signature on Thursday morning, the nation went from the brink of default to having a least a little elbow room on the debt...