Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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If budgets are about priorities, the U.S. Congress favors the elderly. About two-thirds of federal spending goes to transfer payments, and of that amount, more… Read More
In order to stop the return of earmarking to Congress, Sens. Tom Coburn (R–Okla.), and Mark Udall (D–Colo.), are urging their fellow colleagues to support… Read More
Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated projections for the 2014 federal budget. CBO reports the 2014 deficit at $492 billion, just shy… Read More
Past and current retirees receive much more in benefits from Social Security and Medicare than they paid into the systems. Absent reform, younger generations will… Read More
The Senate is set to vote on the so-called Paycheck Fairness Act today. Here are three things you should know about the bill: 1. It… Read More
Yesterday, Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) released his budget plan for the next decade. As the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Sen. Patty… Read More
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released the Fiscal Year 2015 Path to Prosperity Budget. Building on foundations established in 2011, this plan seeks… Read More
The House Budget Committee will deliver its budget resolution—which would eliminate the deficit within 10 years—ahead of Congress’s statutory deadline of April 15. The Senate,… Read More
The President’s Budget — 212 pages long — included a wide range of proposals and Heritage experts shed light on a number of these in… Read More
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler focused his latest Fact Checker column on The Heritage Foundation analogy that suspending the debt limit is like giving a… Read More
