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House leaders head back to the drawing board after failing to convince reticent lawmakers to support a budget resolution that adheres to discretionary spending levels set in last fall’s budget agreement. House Budget Chair Tom Price’s (R-Ga.) proposal to offset…

On the verge of presidential primary voting in Georgia and other Super Tuesday states, former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker and Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby last week urged an Atlanta audience to carefully assess candidates’ plans…

House Republicans continue to debate how to approach this year’s budget work, with a large faction -- the Republican Study Committee (RSC) -- joining in the opposition to additional spending that was part of a bipartisan budget agreement last fall.…

House Republicans have pushed back their schedule for approving a budget resolution as some conservatives continue to oppose additional spending that was part of a bipartisan budget deal last fall. The House Budget Committee had been expected to consider a…

There is ample opportunity to make federal spending on highways more productive, according to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report. Funding formulas that the federal government uses to apportion spending to each state do not correspond well to how…

The administration is seeking roughly $1 billion in additional IRS funding that the agency says could improve customer service and step up enforcement work, resulting in billions of dollars in additional federal revenue. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen faced Republican skepticism,…

House Speaker Paul Ryan is urging Republican lawmakers to respect the 2017 spending levels set in last fall’s budget deal, but continuing opposition from some conservatives has raised the possibility that Congress might not pass a budget resolution this year.…

The federal debt has reached $19 trillion, an omen of increasingly severe financial difficulties for the United States unless Washington approves sweeping budget reforms. Well over $13.6 trillion of that total is known as “debt owed to the public,” meaning…