Budget Process Studies

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

How Do We Evaluate Shutdown Costs? | The Budget Process at 50

• • Leo Plumer
• March 11, 2024

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Bad Timing and Budget Gimmicks

• • Veronique de Rugy
• October 8, 2021

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

A Pictorial Guide to Congress’ Irresponsible Health and Budget Proposals | Discourse

• • Charles Blahous
• September 30, 2021

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Doves and Hawks Set to Battle Over Biden’s $6 Trillion Budget Proposal

• • Omar Al-Ubaydli
• May 30, 2021

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Washington Gives Up on Spending Cuts

• • Veronique de Rugy
• July 26, 2019

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Trump's Rose-Colored Forecasts Surprisingly Accurate -- for Now

• • Veronique de Rugy
• March 21, 2019

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Politics Trump Policy Once Again in Budget Debate

• • Veronique de Rugy
• March 14, 2019

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

The Trump budget's economic forecasts should work, for now

• • Bruce Yandle
• March 13, 2019

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations

CBO Offers Many Options to Reduce the Federal Deficit

• • Veronique de Rugy
  • Justin Leventhal
• February 13, 2019

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Trump shutdown: A $5.7 billion wall downpayment cost $130 billion and we still don't have it

• • Bruce Yandle
• January 25, 2019

Trump's Rose Garden announcement revealed an agreement to end the shutdown for now, but it tells us little about the future of the wall or our economy.

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

10 Things to Know about the Shutdown (and How It Might End)

• • Andrea O'Sullivan
  • Christian McGuire
• January 3, 2019

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Bad Bills Come from Those Who Wait

• • Veronique de Rugy
• October 9, 2018

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Universal Savings Accounts a Silver Lining in Tax Reform

• • Veronique de Rugy
• September 17, 2018

• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Time to Rethink How We Fund Highways

• • Robert Krol
• July 2, 2018

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Scholars Respond to Budget Proposal

• • Brian Knight
  • Christine McDaniel
  • David M. Primo
  • Veronique de Rugy
• February 12, 2018

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

Unrealistic Budget Assumptions Drive Deficit Projections

• • Veronique de Rugy
• February 12, 2018

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

A 'Skinny' Budget Blueprint from Trump That Ignores the Not-So-Skinny Drivers of the National Debt

• • Veronique de Rugy
• March 16, 2017

• | Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium Low Interest Rates and the Economy: A Mercatus Colloquium

Interest Rates and the Federal Budget Outlook

• • Alan Auerbach
  • William Gale
  • Aaron Krupkin
• December 12, 2016

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary

The One Budget Reform that Matters

• • Charles Blahous
• October 10, 2016

• | Government Spending Government Spending
• | Research Papers Research Papers

A Review of Selected Corporate Tax Privileges

• • Veronique de Rugy
  • Adam N. Michel
• October 5, 2016