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…
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…
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…
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…