FY 2011 Budget
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Still Budgeting Through Footnotes in FY 2011
A few months ago, we pointed out that the Administration was cheating in its Mid-Session Review budget baseline. Essentially it was taking policies...
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Freeze Leaves Some Cold, Some Toasty
Today, CRFB released our Analysis of the President's FY 2011 Budget . We will be following-up here at The Bottom Line with shorter analyses discussing...
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CRFB in the News
With the release of the President's budget yesterday, CRFB has received a ton of media coverage, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN...
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CRFB Comments on Administration Budget
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget today applauded President Obama for proposing a specific fiscal goal in his Fiscal 2011 budget plan...
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President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...
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On the President's Spending Cuts....
Yesterday -- citing CRFB's work -- The Stephen Dinan of Washington Times wrote that President Obama, in his first year, was more successful than...
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House Sustains Obama Veto of CR; Budgeteers Yawn
The House voted Wednesday to sustain President Obama's veto of a Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded. Huh? Confused? Why wasn't this...
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Tough Challenge Facing Obama Administration in Last Days of Budget Deliberations
Today’s New York Times article on the difficulty President Obama faces in keeping his promise about deficit reduction and tax cuts, Promise to Trim...
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Since We've Been Gone...
We hope all of our readers had very happy holidays. Now that we are back from our vacation, there is a lot to report on regarding congressional...
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What Happened to the President's Spending Cuts?
Yesterday, on the heels of President Obama signing a $1.1 trillion "minibus" CRFB released a paper on the importance of controlling discretionary...
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Update on House Activities: Debt Ceiling, CR, and Defense Bill
The House has been extremely busy today, not only passing a $154 billion jobs bill but also passing a temporary continuing resolution, the defense...
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House Passes $447 Billion 'Minibus' Bill
The House passed a bill yesterday containing six of the appropriations bills still lingering in Congress, at a total cost of $447 billion. On Monday...