Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Op-Ed: Weak Leaders Fumble the Public Purse
Washington Times | September 23, 2013 The past decade has been a disaster when it comes to fiscal stewardship and political leadership. Our official...
Op-Ed: Reason to Hope for Fiscal Sanity
The Hill | September 17, 2013 For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to sounding the alarm about our government’s fiscal mismanagement and...
Op-Ed: Government Shutdown? A Leap of Trust Can Seal a Budget Deal
Christian Science Monitor | September 16, 2012 Budget talk in Washington is again dominated by nonnegotiable demands and a potential government...
Op-Ed: Now or Never on Debt Issue
The Hill | September 9, 2013 After an August in the countryside or their states or somewhere around the world or Martha’s Vineyard, the president and...
Op-Ed: Nation Does Not Need Another Government Shutdown
The Hill | September 6, 2013 The last real government shutdowns occurred in the winter of 1995. Two funding gaps that winter resulted in a total of 26...
Report: Social Security Reform and the Cost of Delay
Update 8/11/15: We've updated this report with the new data available in the 2015 Trustees report in our blog .
Op-Ed: Neither The President Nor Congress Earned A Vacation This Summer
Forbes | August 21, 2013 Congress has left for its summer recess vacation at home. The President took his at Martha’s Vineyard. Based on legislative...
Op-Ed: Credible Debt Plan Would Boost the US Economy
Financial Times | July 23, 2013 Sir, Edward Luce says that “Simpson and Bowles are wrong about the US debt” (July 15) but he gets it wrong describing...