…eliminations are budget related and qualify under Reconciliation is something I would wonder about as they do not appear to be budget related. There is enough time for Republicans to…

A couple of weeks ago, the House passed a Tax Reform Budget Resolution. Today, the Senate will take a vote on its Tax Reform Budget Resolution. Once passed, the differences…

…looking at is a Pie Chart showing all items in the budget. The breakout of the Payroll Tax Chart from the Pie Chart (further down) depicts funding for Social Security,…

…to ensure that the GOP and the Trump administration honor any concessions they make in budget negotiations.  I hope this does not reflect the state of strategizing within the party….

…budget. ~~~~~~~ Despite claims of “wasteful spending,” actual expenditures are less than 1% of total budget. Here’s How Much Medicaid Spends on Undocumented Immigrants | MedPage Today, Shannon Firth Key…

By: Daniel Becker HT: Digby More people need to hear this perspective regarding the economy and the budget debate if only to remind them that there is another perspective…if only…

by Bruce Webb CBO Director’s Blog summary of Long Term Budget Outlook (Interesting side comment: “Later this week, CBO will release a report on a number of different policy options…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter What caused the Budget Deficit (Before the Financial Crisis)? Kash on Angry Bear put together a really good graph in 2006 comparing where we…

Monthly Budget Review for July 2015 Bolding mine: The federal government’s budget deficit amounted to $463 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates. That deficit…

…obligations until Congress raised the debt ceiling.  On March 9, as part of the usual budget process, Biden produced a detailed budget, which was a wish list of programs that…