Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

Richard Stern joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the players, procedures, and policy options on the table for budget ...

Presidents from both parties, including Trump, have let the budget grow and grow. The White House is trying to make changes ...

President Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

The “Department of Government Efficiency” is charged with cutting federal expenditures and there is a vast amount of ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

The president’s pick for budget chief is on the verge of confirmation amid clashes over a spending freeze and worries about ...

The Congress needs new revenue in order to pass a budget and unlock the reconciliation process—whether in "one big beautiful bill" or two—if it is going to accomplish President Trump’s agenda without ...

RSC leaders met behind closed doors at House Republicans' annual retreat to hash out their stance. GOP lawmakers were at ...

Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

In the modern, deeply partisan era, one of the main ways that Congress can accomplish major policy goals is through ...