by Stan Collender | Feb 8, 2013 | The Sequester
When I was much younger, I helped start a monthly breakfast meeting for a handful of inside-the-beltway budget wonks. The group has gotten considerably larger over the past three decades and its makeup – Democrats and Republicans, former House and Senate staffers,...
by Stan Collender | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
It now looks like the Senate on Wednesday will pass the "no budget no pay" version of the debt ceiling increase that has already been adopted by the House. This will be the third GOP budget miscalculation, misstep and mistake in a row. The first was the fiscal cliff,...
by Stan Collender | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
Given what happened in July 2011 when they decided to do the opposite (you remember the anything-but-super committee, right?), we should all be happy House Republicans have agreed that this time they won't hold hostage the increase in the federal debt ceiling the...
by Stan Collender | Jan 16, 2013 | The Sequester
Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent has an important post about the way the debt ceiling fight could end without triggering a cash-crunch crisis for the federal government. Greg thinks is could be one of two possibilities. First, the House GOP could agree to a version...
by Stan Collender | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
Politico had an outstanding but truly bone-chilling story yesterday about how appealing the prospects of a default and a government shutdown may be to House Republicans. According to the piece by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Jake Sherman, forcing a default by not...
