Federal Budget & Appropriations
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Budget Dysfunction: Potential Reforms
Laura Blessing | July 11, 2018
The federal budget process, laid out in the 1974 Budget Act, is a complex, multi-stage process with many opportunities for partisanship and intra-party divisions to derail it. And derailed it has been, with workarounds like omnibus appropriations and Continuing Resolutions (CRs) becoming the new normal. The myriad challenges in the present-day process were discussed at length in
Budget Reform: Diagnosing the Problem
Laura Blessing | May 3, 2018
The federal budget process is broken. There are few things that political actors across the spectrum agree on; the deep dysfunctionality of congressional budgeting is one. This topic has received considerable attention in recent years, most recently via a joint select committee created to seek reforms. The need for such an investigation
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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
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- The Congressional Budget Office
- The Office of Management and Budget
- The Department of the Treasury