Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing May 6th titled, “ New Routes for Funding and Financing Highways and Transit.” During the hearing Senators...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released the spring update to its long-term federal budget simulation series. In their report, GAO...

Today, Wonkblog published a “ Know More” feature arguing that “You Should Tune Out Politicians Who Are Still Talking about Government Debt.” As...

The Pentagon's budget faces serious constraints this year as a result of budget caps agreed to last year and rising personnel, healthcare, and...

The recent slowdown in federal health care spending has certainly been good news for the budget, knocking hundreds of billions of dollars off...

The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) yesterday in opposition to the extension and expansion of the Research &...

With April's updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), spending on major federal health care programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a new set of long-term debt projections today. They find that while the debt will remain...

Congress is continuing to discuss this week the tax extenders, a set of tax breaks that expired at the end of last year which could have major fiscal...

As Congress considers how to address the “ tax extenders” that expired last year, it’s important to remember that many major proposals would allow...