Budget

The evidence of America’s fiscal brokenness is everywhere and the notion of “fiscal discipline” itself might as well be in a time capsule. Congress considers no budgets. Legislation never hits against cost limitations. And every partisan disagreement is “solved” simply by spending more on the pet programs of the opposing party.

So yes, the need for a budget—a fiscal plan—could not be more immediate. But there are some serious challenges facing any renewed effort to deal with the nation’s fiscal nightmare, and any budget intended for results must consider these.

Related Documents

Introduction to the Center for Renewing America FY2023 Budget (Excerpt)
FY2023 Budget: Center for Renewing America
CRA Budget in Focus: Department of Education
CRA Budget in Focus: Department of Health & Human Services
CRA Budget in Focus: Department of State and Foreign Aid
CRA Budget in Focus: Ending the Weaponization of the FBI

Primer: Obamacare Subsidies and Abortion Coverage

September 15, 2025 | by CRA Staff

Lawmakers have many issues to contemplate when considering an extension of the enhanced subsidies, including the sizable cost and increased risks of fraud associated with an extension. But they should also recognize that a straight extension of the enhanced subsidy regime would continue to send federal funds to plans that cover abortion, while doing nothing regarding the emerging blue state strategy to circumvent pro-life protections.

Primer: A Pocket Rescission Strategy to Cut Spending

May 29, 2025 | by Wade Miller

A rescission is a viable tool for carrying out the broader political mandate to curb unnecessary spending. If the executive branch decides to use this process, the deployment of a rescission with fewer than forty-five days remaining in the fiscal year is a statutorily and constitutionally valid strategy.

Primer: Rescissions to Curb Woke, Weaponized, and Wasteful Federal Spending — In Brief

April 14, 2025 | by Nikolaus Schuster

While flawed, it is an available tool that should be considered when seeking to curb the power of the administrative state.

Primer: AmeriCorps is Another Woke and Weaponized Scheme

March 31, 2025 | by CRA Staff

Instead of promoting the true spirit of volunteerism, which happens every day all across America without federal intervention, AmeriCorps now serves as a slush fund for radical left-wing institutions and their agendas.

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Primer: Woke and Wasteful Abuses in the Medicaid Program

March 21, 2025 | by Samara Brown

Medicaid has extended health-care coverage to millions of people beyond the intended initial population of children, the elderly, the disabled, and those who are truly in need. It has instead become a benefit hammock for many who would otherwise not qualify.

Primer: Medicaid Reforms Provide Savings Without Cutting Benefits

March 21, 2025 | by Samara Brown

Opponents of reform claim that any changes to the Medicaid program are massive “cuts” that will cause beneficiaries harm. In reality, the opposite is true: Failing to change a program with such rapidly exploding costs will only result in the unsustainability that ultimately harms its recipients.

Democrats Gamed Budget Rules to Hide Hundreds of Billions in Green Energy Giveaways

October 15, 2024 | by Dan Kowalski

Conservatives should lead the charge to return choice to American consumers and remove costly subsidies that clearly increase deficits and debt by repealing the green energy provisions of the IRA.

Fiscal Update: Appropriations Process at Congress’ Summer Break

August 16, 2024 | by Dan Kowalski

If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal. Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government.