Budgets & Projections
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The Post-SGR Budget Outlook
Lawmakers cleared their second Fiscal Speed Bump of the year - the expiration of the one-year "doc fix" - earlier this month, scuttling the Medicare...
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Update: Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress sped through this year's second and third " Fiscal Speed Bumps" in March, ignoring the return of the statutory debt limit (though the hard...
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Appropriators Jump the Gun and Start the FY 2016 Funding Race
The House Appropriations Committee kicked off appropriations season this week by starting to mark up their Fiscal Year 2016 bills at the same time...
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CRFB and FTD Publish Q&A on the Budget Conference
We published a paper with our partners at Fix the Debt last week to help answer questions about the budget conference committee that met for the first...
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House and Senate Budgets Don't Balance in 2025 With Enacted Legislation
The House and Senate are going to a conference committee to reconcile the differences between their budget resolutions, but legislative developments...
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A Budget Conference - Now What?
The House and Senate will soon appoint a formal conference committee to iron out differences between their two budgets, even though press reports...
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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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Halfway Point of FY 2015 Shows Higher Deficit than FY 2014
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its Monthly Budget Review for March, rounding out the first half of Fiscal Year 2015. The report...
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Health Care Policies in the President's Budget
Lawmakers often lament the difficulty of reforming Medicare and other health care programs, but the difficulty is not a lack of viable options. One...
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Congressional Black Caucus Proposes Alternative Budget
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has released an alternative budget proposal highlighting their policy goals and preferred fiscal path for the...