Apr 12, 2018 | Budget Process
Letter to Members of Congress on Statutory Budget Deadline
The statutory deadline for a budget is April 15 and no budget is in sight. Instead, members of the House of Representatives are voting on a balanced...
Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Apr 9, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
Analysis of CBO’s April 2018 Budget and Economic Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its ten-year budget and economic outlook today, showing that recent legislation has made an already...
Mar 29, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
Chartbook: America's Deteriorating Budget Outlook
Below is a chartbook on America's deteriorating budget outlook.
Mar 27, 2018 | Other Spending
Pro-Growth Infrastructure Needs Concrete Pay-Fors
Policymakers in Washington have turned their attention to infrastructure, with members of both parties putting forward their own competing proposals...
Mar 13, 2018 | Taxes
Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Tax Extenders
On March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy...
Mar 13, 2018 | Budget Process
Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on CBO Oversight: Perspectives from Outside Experts
On March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "CBO Oversight...
Mar 2, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
Updating the U.S. Budget Outlook
The national debt is currently higher than at any time in history outside of World War II and the years immediately after, and it is rising...
Feb 26, 2018 | Budget Process
Playing By the (Budget) Rules: Understanding and Preventing Budget Gimmicks
The breakdown in the federal budget process and erosion of budget discipline have led to the increasingly pervasive reliance on budget gimmicks....
Feb 23, 2018 | Budget Process
Five Ways the Budget Process Has Failed
Today is the deadline for Congressional leaders to announce the Members of Congress serving on the Joint Select Committee on Budget and...
Feb 12, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
Analysis of the President's FY 2019 Budget
The Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal today. The budget proposes a number of tax and spending changes that it...
Feb 9, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget
The Trump Administration is slated to release its budget outlining the President’s priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and the next decade on Monday...
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal priorities. One of the most...
Feb 6, 2018 | Budget Process
Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Continuing Resolutions, Omnibuses, and Shutdowns
On February 6, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Homeland Security and...
Jan 10, 2018 | Other Spending
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
This paper has been updated here.
As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal...
Jan 4, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
One issue that must be addressed soon is the federal debt ceiling, which was reinstated on December 9, 2017 at almost $20.5 trillion....
Budgeting for the Next Generation: A New Series on Children and the Federal Budget
The federal budget is arguably the most comprehensive representation of the federal government’s priorities. Policymakers use the budget to determine...
Gimmicks to Look Out For in a Spending Deal
With Congress moving toward funding the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2018, pressure is mounting to increase discretionary spending....
Dec 12, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
The Year-End Debt Dilemma
As the year comes to a close, lawmakers have a number of legislative deadlines and a variety of issues they need or want to address – many of which...
Can Tax Reform Generate 0.4% Additional Growth?
Well-crafted tax reform would improve economic growth. While pro-growth tax reform can generate some revenue to the Treasury from the added growth,...
Chartbook: Dynamic Scoring and Tax Reform
This presentation covers that
tax cuts don't pay for themselves,
smart tax reform can generate $300 billion to $400 billion of dynamic revenues (...
