Budgets & Projections
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
The budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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Budget Process in the FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
During the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Note: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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The Basics of the Budget Conference Agreement
Yesterday, we discussed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference, where we showed how the budget conference agreement was a mixed bag...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference
With the budget conference complete, it is now up to each chamber of Congress to pass the FY 2016 concurrent budget resolution. We've already written...
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$180 Billion Added to the Debt This Congress - How Deep Will Congress Dig?
Our partners at Fix the Debt released a graphic yesterday highlighting the fiscal irresponsibility of the 114th Congress in the few months it has been...
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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...