Budgets & Projections

Continuing its year-long lesson in "How Not To Budget," the House Wednesday passed legislation that would freeze overall Fiscal Year 2011...

James T. Lynn, a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board and former budget director in the Ford administration died Dec. 6 in...

In her latest commentary on CNN Money, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas celebrates the bipartisan, super-majority vote of the Fiscal Commission and...

Today, the Center for American Progress released a plan to get specific on our growing deficits and debt. Or, rather, they've released five...

Commission Can’t Quite Commit – The President’s Fiscal Commission was able to produce a fiscal plan last week that garnered a bipartisan majority of...

In a Heritage Foundation analysis of the President's Fiscal Commission's final plan, Brian Riedl argues that the recommendations have "too much taxes...

Once again, Congress earlier this week had to pass a short-term stop-gap spending measure to keep the lights on. The House and Senate passed a...

Update: 11 out of the commission's 18 members voted to approve of the final proposal. See our release here. The report is titled “ The Moment of Truth...

Update: Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has also decided to support the Fiscal Commission's plan, helping to give the recommendations a bipartisan...

Since the Fiscal Commission released its final report yesterday, CRFB has updated its comprehensive table covering all of the deficit reduction...