Budget resolutions can provide reconciliation instructions for legislation that changes federal spending, changes federal revenue, changes the federal debt limit, or some combination of the three.

Economic policy talk reaches a crescendo around the Union Budget in India. Is this justified? How consequential is the budget as far as the overall economy is concerned? Has its importance been ...

(Note: In this analysis, the figures are adjusted for certain one- or two-day timing shifts in federal payments that distort the year-to-year paths.) As the chart below shows, three major areas of ...

Charts should be readable in black and white. For more information on these and other accessibility requirements, please reference Microsoft Office's guidelines. Pie charts are one of the simplest ...

The next federal surplus did not occur until 1998, when President Bill Clinton reached a landmark budget deal with Congress that resulted in a $70 billion surplus. The surplus grew to $236 billion ...

How are these resources distributed? What portion of the budget is allocated to sub-federal levels for agriculture? Most importantly, is the Ministry of Agriculture at the federal level truly ...

Think of your budget like baking a pie. Your first step is to gather your ingredients—that means understanding all of your sources of income. Fill up your pan by tallying paychecks, whether they ...

Here are four easy steps to get started building your own budget with the 50/30/20 rule. Think of your budget like baking a pie. Your first step is to gather your ingredients—that means understanding ...

And even just listening to you right now, a budget being a reflection of a healthy democracy is really what it sounds like your approach is, in part, and that a federal budget can and should help ...

Telework and remote work are tools that have helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency," said Kelley, citing Office of Management and Budget statistics that only 10% of ...

Several Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives in December unsuccessfully sought to increase the debt limit by $1.5 trillion when enacting the current temporary federal budget that ...

released its latest 10-year budget and economic outlook Friday that showed the federal government is on track to break a debt record set nearly 80 years ago. The CBO's outlook shows that ...