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War Spending in the Omnibus Bill
Among the many things we noted yesterday on the blog about the omnibus appropriations bill was the similarity between war spending in the bill and in...
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Op-Ed: Helping the Budget $150 Billion at a Time
The Hill | January 14, 2014 By all accounts, 2014 is unlikely to be the year of the grand bargain…or anything close. Neither the President nor any of...
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Understanding the "Omnibus" Appropriations Bill
Last night, Congressional appropriators unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the government for the rest of FY 2014...
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UI Offsets a Good Start, But Fall Short
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released their score of the proposal from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to renew extended unemployment...
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2013 SAVE Award Announced
Since 2009, the White House has held an annual contest for federal employees to submit their money saving ideas, called the SAVE Award (which stands...
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CBO 95 Percent Confident Social Security Trust Fund Runs Out in 25 Years
CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook contains significant amounts of helpful data on Social Security. However, a lot of the data focus on just the outlays...
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Op-Ed: Don't Be So Quick To Dismiss The Paul Ryan-Patty Murray Budget Deal
Forbes | December 18, 2013 The Congressional Budget Conference Agreement is a paradox. On its face it is underwhelming. It ignores the pressing long...
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The Final Four Is Here...For the SAVE Award
While the Final Four for the NCAA tournament is still almost four months away, another Final Four is taking place right now. Although it won't be held...
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Op-Ed: Budget Deal is Just a Start
Los Angeles Times | December 16, 2013 The budget agreement reached by the House and Senate this week is a small step forward in restoring some sanity...
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Understanding the Defense Retirement Reforms in the Bipartisan Budget Act
As CRFB has explained in a recent analysis, the Bipartisan Budget Act under consideration in the Senate would replace a portion of the mindless...
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How the Bipartisan Budget Act Improves the Long Term
As we've said before, paying for temporary costs with savings that grow over the long term is very helpful for the long-term budget outlook, as it...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the Bipartisan Budget Act
On Wednesday, we published an analysis of the Bipartisan Budget Act, which would replace a portion of the FY2014 and FY2015 sequester with mandatory...