Defunding Health Care Innovation Jeopardizes the Budget
In a move that could stall promising health care delivery system reforms and drive up entitlement spending, the House Appropriations Committee last...
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Updated Appropriations 101
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Van Hollen and Mulvaney Stand Up on OCO
One of the most troubling elements of the budget conference agreement was the use of the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account as a slush...
Appropriators Jump the Gun and Start the FY 2016 Funding Race
The House Appropriations Committee kicked off appropriations season this week by starting to mark up their Fiscal Year 2016 bills at the same time...
Senate Budget Takes Issue with CHIMPs
The Senate budget by Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) contains an important provision to limit a gimmick often used to increase spending using phony savings...
Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending "Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland...
Are the Discretionary Spending Caps Sustainable?
The biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending...
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Fiscal Speed Bumps Will Keep the New Congress Busy
Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...
Top 14 Charts About the Budget in 2014
This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a...
Budget Gimmicks in the CRomnibus Bill
The eagerly awaited $1.1 trillion "CRomnibus" bill was released yesterday, and given its far-reaching nature, many aspects are being...