FY 2014 Budget

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...

Last night, Congressional appropriators unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the government for the rest of FY 2014...

On Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Paul Ryan announced a budget deal that set discretionary spending levels for the next two years, removed some...

So far, reactions to the budget agreement have been mixed. As we said in our report yesterday, Understanding the Bipartisan Budget Act, the deal...

We hope all of our readers enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. The long weekend brought some fantastic rivalry games, Michigan-Ohio State, Auburn...

In addition to CBO director Doug Elmendorf's testimony, yesterday's budget conference committee meeting produced another notable moment: a proposal...

As the budget conference committee works to develop a plan to offset some of the sequester, they may be tempted to use budget gimmicks in place of...

The second meeting of the budget conference committee will happen today at 10 AM Eastern time. The conferees do not have a lot of time, as their...

It has been one week since the budget conference committee's first meeting, and many are speculating that the committee could realistically come up...

With conference committee meetings underway, many are weighing in with their take on what should be accomplished. On Friday, Fareed Zakaria at CNN...

With a deal on the appropriations bill last week, the government has been reopened and a default has been avoided. But the reality is that lawmakers...

The first official meeting of the conference committee is expected to occur sometime next week, at which point the conferees will begin attempting to...