Appropriations
Taxpayers Do Not Get Everything They Want But They Get What They Need
The Fiscal Responsibility Act is what taxpayers need and will lead to more of what they want to reduce wasteful spending.
CBO’s 2020 Economic Outlook Shows Trillion-Dollar Deficits Are Here To Stay
Unsurprisingly, the United States’ fiscal outlook remains dreadful.
Congress Should not Specify Advanced Technology for Aviation Safety and Efficiency
Congress should not pick winners and losers in FAA's bid to improve safety and efficiency.
Senate DOD Appropriations Bill Lacks House JEDI Guardrails
In the ongoing saga of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud services contract, the bill and report language for S.
Can Congress Prevent Another Government Shutdown?
Both chambers need to reach an agreement on government spending.
NIH Should Close Montana Facility to Pay for $1.3 Billion of Repairs
Current state of NIH facilities could undermine life saving research.
Congress Drives the "Megabus" Off the Tracks
Even with the national debt at more than $22 trillion and trillion-dollar annual deficits beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2022, Congress continues full-speed ahead towards another fiscal disaster. This week’s poor spending decision comes from H.R....
Congress Rushes to Pass Government Funding Package
The $333 billion spending package that Congress has cobbled together to avoid the threat of a partial government shutdown contains lots of giveaways that go beyond keeping the government’s lights on.
House Appropriations Boosts Spending for Costly F-35 Program… Again
On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, the House Committee on Appropriations passed the fiscal year (FY) 2019 Defense Appropriations bill by a vote of 48-4. The bill provides $674.6 billion in total spending for the
Myths and Realities: Earmarks
Reality: Earmarks are not the answer to mitigating the extreme partisanship that exists in Washington and are have nothing to do with getting things done.
Congress Passes Continuing Resolution
On September 28, 2016, the U.S.
OMB: House Spending Bills Over Statutory Spending Caps Bust the Statutory Caps
In a sequestration report released on August 19, 2016, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found that the fiscal year (FY) 2017 appropriations bills
