…for years, a process that was carred to extremes under Bush to fund the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Source: OMB via Huffington Post Why doesn’t…

…“Leninist Strategy”) For some real heavy lifting advanced students can read through the following sections of the Analytical Perspectives on the Budget (OMBs official explanation of the President’s Budget). Ch….

…is that Social Security passes the ten year test for solvency, the same ten year test used by OMB and CBO and Congress to measure just about every other aspect…

…of Management and Budget: Budget Concepts and Budget Process This comes from Section 12 of OMB’s Analytical Perspectives on the Budget which is the explanatory supplement to the Budget itself….

Robert Waldmann David Stockman (yes Reagan’s OMB director David Stockman) denounces the Republican Party for its irresponsible love of tax cuts for the rich. This is wonderful. With such a…

…politics, I’ll take a look at some of how he’s done on secondary issues. But I’m not all encouraged, especially since I remember his performance as OMB Director very well….

(hat tip OMB Watch) Coal Combustion Residuals, often referred to as coal ash, are currently considered exempt wastes under an amendment to RCRA, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. They…

…from CBO scoring. Traditionally both CBO and OMB score proposals over a ten-year time period and only occasionally peak over that horizon. But if as the current Ryan Roadmap does…

…in a Social Security discussion, but this is after all a Presidential Commission and moreover the current top two at OMB are themselves authors of prominent Social Security plans: Diamond-Orszag…

…a description of the potential expenditure (unlikely to happen). The link is to the site, which contains the report and the data in two separate, large pdf documents. OMB has…