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The Debt Ceiling and the Appropriations Process
Katina Slavkova | May 3, 2023
The partisan and intra-branch posturing on the debt ceiling, on display since January, has finally yielded actual legislative text. Last week Speaker Kevin McCarthy successfully shepherded his conference to pass a debt ceiling bill, accurately characterized as a “bare-minimum victory on a doomed bill.” This description of the House GOP’s initial bargaining offer perfectly
Back to the Future for Appropriations Procedures in the 118th Congress?
Matt Glassman | March 17, 2023
President Biden released the President’s Budget last week and with it, the federal appropriations process has lurched to a start. In the modern era, we have come to expect to see late introduction of the President’s budget, forgoing passing a budget resolution by the budget committees (“deeming” them instead), and the failure to pass individual
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- CRS Report: Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
- The Concord Coalition: The Federal Budget Now and in the Future (PDF)
- House Committee on the Budget
- House Committee on Appropriations
- House Committee on Ways and Means
- Senate Budget Committee
- Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Senate Committee on Finance
- The Government Accountability Office
- The Congressional Budget Office
- The Office of Management and Budget
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