The Final Four Is Here...For the SAVE Award
While the Final Four for the NCAA tournament is still almost four months away, another Final Four is taking place right now. Although it won't...
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Short-Term Deficits May Be Shrinking, But Long-Term Problem Remains
Update: This blog has been updated to include the Mid-Session Review and CBO projections for the 2013 deficit.Yesterday, the Treasury Department...
Looking Ahead: FY 2014 Issues Creating FY 2015 Uncertainty
When lawmakers return from August recess in a few weeks they will turn their attention to FY 2014 government funding, which requires appropriations...
The Mid-Session Review: A Case for Building in Wiggle Room for Ever-Changing Projections
One of the reasons CRFB and other budget hawks have touted the benefits of putting debt on a downward path this decade -- in addition to the economic...
A Closer Look at the Mid-Session Review
On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget released its re-estimate of the President's Budget in the Mid-Session Review. OMB's new estimates of...
OMB Releases 2014 Mid-Session Review
Today, the Office of Management and Budget released its Mid-Session Review, revised estimates of the President's 2014 budget incorporating...
The President's Budget in the Long Term
Continuing our analysis of the President's FY 2014 budget proposal, we turn to how the President's budget would affect long-term revenues and...
How The President's Budget Would Look In 2023
Our next blog post in our series analyzing the President's budget will look at where the budget leaves revenue and spending by the end of the decade...
The Sequester and the Baseline
Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...
How the President's Budget Deals With Temporary Policies
A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...