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The choice of who will replace Peter Orszag at OMB is a critical one. We were thrilled when President Obama chose Orszag, Summers, and Geithner, to be...

We reported last week many times on efforts by the Obama Administration to save small chunks of change (see here, here, and here.) But they're not...

The Obama Administration has been putting out a flurry (see here and here) of modest savings proposals over the past few weeks. The latest comes in a...

The Obama Administration is looking at spending once again. A day after the White House announced a plan to encourage savings by executive agencies...

In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...

In today’s hearing before the full House Appropriations Committee, the troika (OMB Director Peter Orszag, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and Dr...

On March 5, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave us a preview of its take on the President’s budget proposals for Fiscal Year 2011 (starting...

This afternoon CBO released its preliminary analysis of the President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...

In a blog yesterday and op-ed today, OMB Director Peter Orszag defended the President's health care plan as reducing "deficits by roughly $100 billion...

An editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal called on the Administration to support the reform of the two housing financing enterprises...

Although our initial analysis of the President's Budget focused on his ten-year budget plan, the Budget itself includes much, much more. Nestled in...

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...