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This week Congress is expected to act on a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund most federal agencies at last year's levels through March 4. Action is necessary because neither the $1.09 trillion full-year CR passed by the House nor…

The legal term severable normally gets little notice outside the world of constitutional law -- yet now it has become a big buzzword amongst health care analysts and federal budget wonks. The reason has to do with the numerous legal challenges to the Accountable Care Act's individual mandate to purchase…

Last week the House voted 212-206 to pass a continuing resolution to fund federal agencies for the rest of the fiscal year. According to the Appropriations Committee, the $1.1 trillion bill freezes discretionary spending at the FY 2010 level and…

Deficit hawks have long warned that unnecessary delays in deficit reduction carry risks and high costs that will only make the job harder down the road. A new study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) underscores that point. It analyzes…

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that if the tentative agreement to extend expiring tax cuts for two years is approved, it should be followed by a major push to reform the tax code. (more…)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will be significantly lower than previous estimates. Congress passed TARP in October 2008 to permit the Treasury Department to purchase or insure "troubled…

Some people on both ends of the political spectrum have criticized the recommendations of the President’s fiscal commission as well as other bipartisan deficit-reduction plans such as the one recently unveiled by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force.…

A bipartisan majority on the President's fiscal commission has surprised skeptics and pleased deficit hawks by supporting a credible, comprehensive plan to reduce federal deficits and repair the big entitlement programs.The plan would cut the deficit to 2.3 percent of…