#Federal Budget

As Congress slides into April without any serious progress on a budget resolution in the House, some pragmatic lawmakers are reportedly considering the use of a novel approach to break the gridlock: a “Queen of the Hill” legislative rule. (more…)

During the congressional recess, House leaders are reportedly continuing efforts to bridge Republican disagreements over a proposed budget resolution that follows a bipartisan deal last fall to loosen spending caps by $30 billion for Fiscal 2017. Some House Republicans want…

The budget resolution favored by House Republican leaders remains in doubt despite its winning approval on a 20-16 vote in the Budget Committee last week. Hopes for a full House vote this week have fallen by the wayside, with the…

House Budget Chair Tom Price (R-Ga.) says his committee will consider tomorrow a budget resolution favored by GOP leaders and introduced today despite insistent opposition from some Republican lawmakers to discretionary spending levels that were set in a bipartisan agreement…

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.…

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…

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.…

With the presidential primary season underway, voters should ask themselves which candidates are offering credible solutions to deal with the nation’s difficult fiscal challenges. “Whoever becomes the next president will face an unsustainable rise in the debt that threatens to…