Congress. Congress' Budget Process Is Broken. Here's One Idea for Fixing It. Lawmakers should be freed from "the dead hand of some guy from 1974," says former Congressional Budget Office director.

Some years, Congress does not even bother to adopt a budget. Legislators regularly appropriate money whether the money has previously been authorized by law, as the budget process requires — or not.

However, former Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who chaired the House Budget Committee between 2017 and 2023, questioned whether the process laid out by the Congressional Budget Act still makes sense.

In 1974, Congress passed the Budget Control Act (BCA), which sought to reform and streamline the process for passing the federal budget. Per the BCA, the president submits his budget proposal to ...

The agency providing Congress with cost estimates — including projections for the GOP’s major reconciliation bill — has a long ...

There’s understandable confusion over Capitol Hill lingo discussing the budget process and appropriations/spending process — which are two distinct things.

The federal government could be unable to pay its bills as soon as August if Congress doesn't act, the Congressional Budget Office estimated. Latest U.S.

Congress will head into its Memorial Day recess at the end of this week with a host of unanswered questions about the annual budget process, including a detailed plan of what the White House hopes ...

Republicans in Congress plan to use a tool of the budget process, known as reconciliation, to pass portions of President Trump's agenda without the need for votes from Democrats in the Senate.

What is budget reconciliation? The process that Republicans are using to move Trump's one big beautiful bill to cut taxes and Medicaid through Congress.

The budget process was outlined in 1974, even before the dean of the Congress, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (age 91) was there. That legislation established a simple process.