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Five Cheers for the FY19 Appropriations Process
Matt Glassman | October 1, 2018
The 2019 federal fiscal year begins Monday, October 1st. To the surprise of many, the FY2019 appropriations process in Congress resulted in on-time passage of several of the annual appropriations bills. On September 21, President Trump signed the FY2019 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which contained the annual appropriations for three of the traditional twelve
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
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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
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- Senate Committee on Finance
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- The Office of Management and Budget
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