Rep. Mulvaney: "The Republican Budget Is a Deficit Bust"
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) wrote a commentary published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday in which he decried the recently-passed budgets in...
Defense
Sharpening the Axe: How the House and Senate Budgets Handle the Sequester
With the Murray-Ryan deal expiring at the end of September, the sequester will once again be a hot topic as lawmakers will be prompted to deal with...
Senate Amendment Would Take Further Step Back on War Spending
A big discussion has ensued in both the House and Senate about defense spending, and for the FY 2016 budget, that has meant how much to increase...
Two Budgets Enter, One Budget Will Leave
In order to resolve disagreement between defense hawks and fiscal hawks, the House will vote on two competing budgets with different approaches to...
Senate Budget Joins the House on Irresponsible War Spending
There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending....
House Budget Sets Dangerous Precedent for War Spending
One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...
President's Budget Proposes to Completely Wind Down War Spending
President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time,...
Will Military Compensation Reform Get the Green Light?
After a more than a year-long process, the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission released its final report yesterday,...
Are the Discretionary Spending Caps Sustainable?
The biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending...
Budget Gimmicks in the CRomnibus Bill
The eagerly awaited $1.1 trillion "CRomnibus" bill was released yesterday, and given its far-reaching nature, many aspects are being...