Budget Deficits The OMB (the White House agency with responsibility for the budget) pegged the upcoming budget deficit at $300b–this is basically a direct projection based on the fact that…

…federal budget? There’s no one correct answer, but you wouldn’t know it from coverage of the budget deal between Senator Patty Murray and Rep. Paul Ryan, which passed the Senate…

…nothing to do with “the budget.” In fact it would remove SS as a factor in the budget discussion entirely. I wait to see a “more efficient or effective way…

CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Document link for Robert’s post. Lots of numbers here, including a new Jan 2015 Baseline for Social Security Just started poking at…

…he didn’t have line-item veto power, but he could have brought budget discipline to Washington, D.C. That seems kind of quaint right now given the fact that after he left,…

…working poor, the elderly, and the disabled. I think cash assistance to the non working able bodied poor is a tiny part of US government budgets especially the Federal Budget….

…one asks an organization if it needs a large budget or a small budget, it will report the need for a large budget. Almost all Western experts who assess threats…

…cost $125 billion, with the majority coming from the FDII deduction. Analysis of CBO’s May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (crfb.org) What is the…

Dale Coberly talking about reforming entitlements and the impact on Social Security . . . CRFB, “The Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget”, is an organization dedicated to reducing the National…

…by a Chinese laboratory leak. White House plan calls for small boost in VA program budget, (militarytimes.com), Leo Shane. The Department of Veterans Affairs would see its lowest increase in program spending…