Budget Process
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It is difficult to overstate how wrecked the federal budget process is. Late last month, President Trump signed a 30-day stopgap funding measure to dodge a government shutdown. This was the second…
Written testimony of Kevin R. Kosar
Vice President of Policy, R Street Institute
Before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs,
Subcommittee on Federal Spending…
July 10, 2019
Dr. Phillip Swagel Congressional Budget Office
Ford House Office Building, Fourth Floor Washington, DC 20515
Dear Dr. Swagel:
Congratulations on your…
From Federal News Network:
Budgets have always been about values. That’s true for both companies and governments. But the federal budgeting process has, in the view of Philip Wallach, senior…
To: The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
From: Marian Currinder, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
Reform: Remove…
The Trump administration’s new budget is fake news. That isn’t because it fails to live up to its grandiose title: “A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First.” Nor is…
Re: FY 2020 302(b) Allocation for the Legislative Branch
Dear Chairwoman Lowey, Ranking Member Granger, and members of the committee:
On behalf of the undersigned bipartisan group of civil…
This past week, Congress held another hearing on budget reform. Two former budget committee chairmen, Leon Panetta and David Obey, both testified. They lamented the current state of congressional…
Legbranch cited in The Government Affairs Institute:
The number of appropriations bills passed per year declined in the 1990s, but the most precipitous drop has come in the wake of 2010, with…