House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget cuts $3.3 trillion over ten years (2015-2024) from programs that serve people of limited means. That’s 69 ... Read more
One especially stark difference between the recent budgets from President Obama and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is in non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding, the ... Read more
Basic budget arithmetic suggests that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s coming budget will be at least as extreme as his budget last year, and ... Read more
President Obama’s 2015 budget seeks to strengthen the economic recovery in the near term; reduce deficits and debt as a share of the economy over ... Read more
The White House announced today that it will recommend $56 billion in additional discretionary funding for 2015 above the level contained in the budget deal ... Read more
The House voted yesterday to undo the military pension savings in December’s Murray-Ryan budget deal and offset the cost by extending the ... Read more
The new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget estimates are more pessimistic than those it released last May, showing deficits that are $1 trillion ... Read more
Update, February 14th, 2014: We've updated this post to reflect new Congressional Budget Office estimates.
The Murray-Ryan budget deal is a step in ... Read more
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced a small-scale budget package on Tuesday that would replace ... Read more
Congressional budget negotiators are looking to replace some or all of the “sequestration” budget cuts for 2014 and perhaps 2015 with changes in mandatory programs, ... Read more