Bobby Kogan
Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy, Center for American Progress
Washington, DC
Experience
- Office of Management and Budget
- Biden-Harris transition team
- U.S. Senate
Expertise
- Federal budget
- Debt ceiling
- Reconciliation process
Education
- College of William & Mary, B.S.
Recent Coverage
MAY 20, 2024
The Hill | Congress sets stage for ‘side deal’ spending fight with White House
“Instead of doing $10 billion of IRS in the first year and $10.23 billion in the second year, they did $20.2 [billion] in the first year,” Bobby Kogan, a senior federal budget policy director at the Center for American Progress and a former Senate Democratic budget aide, said in an interview on Friday.
MAR 27, 2024
The Hill | Budget watchdog warns US could suffer market shock over national debt
Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, pointed to improved deficit projections in recent years, as well as forecasts from the CBO he said “don’t project anything that looks like a panic.”
“If someone were thinking about, ‘Should I panic or should I not panic?’ I would just say, ‘hey, the underlying situation has gotten better, right?’” Kogan said, adding “there’s been lower, long-term projected deficits in the Biden administration.”
FEB 28, 2024
CNBC | Congressional leaders strike partial budget deal, avert weekend government shutdown
Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, pointed to improved deficit projections in recent years, as well as forecasts from the CBO he said “don’t project anything that looks like a panic.”
“If someone were thinking about, ‘Should I panic or should I not panic?’ I would just say, ‘hey, the underlying situation has gotten better, right?’” Kogan said, adding “there’s been lower, long-term projected deficits in the Biden administration.”
JAN 2, 2024
Washington Post | U.S. debt eclipses $34 trillion for first time
The increase in the federal debt could shape upcoming debates over the 2017 GOP tax cut, because many provisions from that legislation are set to expire in 2025. Bobby Kogan, an analyst at the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank, has found that the tax cuts under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump and their subsequent bipartisan extensions have added $10 trillion to the national debt so far.
NOV 14, 2023
The Washington Post: The right is already rebelling against Mike Johnson’s spending plan
Bobby Kogan, a budget analyst at the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank, said on X that the plan will “dramatically increase” the odds of a shutdown, because Congress will face less pressure to act on the less politically salient programs.
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About Bobby
Bobby Kogan is the senior director of Federal Budget Policy at American Progress, working to ensure the federal budget prioritizes policies that help the most vulnerable people. He is an expert in federal budget issues, including aggregate spending, revenues, interest, deficits, and debt. He is also an expert in the congressional budget reconciliation process, as well as in budget concepts and budget scorekeeping.
Prior to joining American Progress, Kogan served in the Biden-Harris White House as an adviser to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, where he assisted with the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, as well as the president’s budget requests, budget concepts, and budget scorekeeping. Before the administration, Kogan joined the Biden-Harris transition team in August 2020 as a policy adviser and budget coordinator. Prior to that, he served on the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, under Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as the chief mathematician and the head of budget analysis, budget concepts, and budget scorekeeping.
His work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications, as well as on NPR and various television outlets.
