Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Staff Working Paper #3: Fiscal and Economic Goals and the Budget Resolution
The budget resolution should prompt debate about the implications of budgetary choices and aggregate totals for fiscal and economic policy, both near-...
Comparing the FY2010 Budget Resolutions
Last week, the Budget Committees in both the House and Senate reported out their respective versions of the Budget Resolution, to be considered on the...
Staff Working Paper #2: The Budget Process
How could the current budgetary decision-making process be improved? This paper looks at the current process and how the concurrent budget resolution...
CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Last week, the CBO released its Preliminary Analysis of The President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...
More on the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Although CRFB commends the President for having a specific fiscal goal and for honestly budgeting for expected costs, several items and trends in the...
A First Look at the President's FY 2010 Budget Blueprint
Today, the White House released an outline of the FY2010 Budget. The President’s budget has a specific fiscal goal, accounts for policies omitted by...
Staff Working Paper #1: Budget Concepts
This paper looks at the 1967 President’s Commission on Budget Concepts and which concepts need to be re-visited by the Peterson-Pew Commission on...
Analysis of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Today, the President signed the stimulus bill into law. The fiscal stimulus includes $501 billion in increased spending and $286 billion in tax cuts...
Comparing the Stimulus Packages
The House stimulus bill costs roughly $820 billion over ten years, while the Senate bill costs $838 billion. Most notably, the Senate version includes...