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
APR 2, 2026
CNBC: Trump is paying TSA agents – but where is the money coming from?
The White House has not laid out exactly where within the tax and spending bill the money is coming from, but Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, said there is only one plausible section that the administration could be citing. Buried deep in the more than 300-page measure is a section that sets aside $10 billion “for reimbursement of costs incurred in undertaking activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s mission to safeguard the borders of the United States.” “They do have a pot of money. It is a giant slush fund. But you couldn’t use it for [just] anything,” Kogan said. Kogan believes the bulk of the $10 billion in the DHS fund from last year’s tax and spending package is still available. He estimated the cost to fund TSA could be around $140 million per week, meaning the White House could continue to fund the agency for a year and not run out of money.
MAR 31, 2026
HuffPost: Republicans Eye Cutting Health Care to Pay for $200 Billion Iran War
“It is ludicrous politics to go in and say, we’re going to take away your health care to pay for an unpopular, unjust, immoral war,” Bobby Kogan, a budget expert at the liberal Center for American Progress, told HuffPost.
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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.
