Yesterday, former Defense Secretary and CRFB board member Leon Panetta headlined a press conference at the National Press Club on the need for our...

In additional to reopening the government and suspending the debt ceiling, last night, both the House and Senate agreed to go to Budget Conference...

This is the eleventh post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Our...

Ending the Shutdown and Cranking Up the Debt Limit – It’s been an up-and-down past couple of weeks. The federal government has been shut down since...

After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...

The prolonged government shutdown and debt ceiling debate are a clear indication that our government is not functioning as it should. Furloughed...

Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...

Bipartisan discussions over how to end the partial government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are coming down to the wire as this week begins...

Naturally, the country has been consumed by the developments (or lack thereof) in the government shutdown and debt ceiling impasse. But there is some...

As the government shutdown continues into its 11th day, the two parties have just begun having serious negotiations about reopening the government and...

With the recent improvement in medium-term budget projections, some are trying to advance the myth that our debt problems have been solved. But as we...

In yesterday's New York Times, the paper asks in its " Room for Debate" series what federal spending we are better off without in light of the...