…sidestep two simple questions from Hume: When does Mitt Romney’s budget reach balance, and when does Ryan’s own budget plan do the same? Ryan pirouetted because Hume’s queries threatened to…

…federal spending were worthless, appointed a commission led by a wealthy businessman to bring a business sensibility to the budget, going through it line by line to identify inefficiency and…

…order two days before Christmas, a move allowed because of Congress’ inaction on permanent federal budgets. Combined, it’s the military and veterans, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and debt payments driving…

…in places like dKos among people who have confused the concepts of budget accounting and cash flow. Budgets and budget scoring are mysterious beasts and neither deficits or surpluses necessarily…

…block the cuts…. The biggest cut would be $65 billion, enacted across the board for most federal programs over the last nine months of fiscal year 2013, from January through…

…largess. Joshua Gordon, director of health policy for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group; “It’s hard to know whether they’re advocating for their business interests or…

…1887, Congress extended railroad regulation to the federal level by passing the Interstate Commerce Act, which forbade railroads from charging more to transport “like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances…

…for cutting that budget item (which they would undoubtedly label “redundant” and “wasteful” if it hadn’t been cut). With the Obama Administration outspending all prior Administrations while adding to the…

…and can skimp only so much on what they eat.  Ernie Tedeschi, formerly on the staff at President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, now director of economics at the Budget…

…in 2022, undocumented immigrants contributed almost $100 billion to federal, state, and local tax revenues, paying property taxes, sales taxes, and federal/state payroll taxes. The study concluded that, “Despite those…