While Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) Tax Reform Act of 2014 (TRA) misses a critical opportunity to use tax reform to slow the...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the fiscally irresponsible Senate “doc fix” bill, showing it would increase Medicare...

As we showed last week, OMB projections show the President's budget will put the debt on a downward path this decade with deficits below 2 percent of...

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) kicked off the Congressional budget season last week by releasing its " Better Off Budget." This release...

Kent Conrad, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote a commentary in Roll Call . It is reposted here. The courage to tackle tough...

It seems to be Gimmick Week in DC. After two of the Medicare physician payment bills offset their costs with gimmicks, the recently announced...

Proposals to "pay for" (or not pay for) a repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula have come out this week, and the verdict has been mostly...

To bolster their case against offsetting the high cost of SGR reform, many have claimed that the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is “ budget...

In the wake of the release of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's (R-MI) tax reform discussion draft, some misconceptions have been...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) isn't the only agency in town that does long-term projections. The Treasury Department annually releases the...

Note: This blog has been updated from its original posting to include the CBO score of the Senate Republican proposal. With the current "doc fix" set...

The administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its report to Congress on Monday detailing the sequester’s impact on mandatory...