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Last week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they...

CRFB.org has just completed a major web redesign! We encourage you to explore the entire site, along with a whole new USBudgetWatch.org and Stimulus...

CBO recently published new projections for the revenues and outlays for Social Security (kudos to Andrew Biggs for pointing this out). The updated...

This morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks...

Today, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year...

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of...

Responsible budgeting is always challenging – but it is particularly so when the discussion centers on certain “third rail" issues like seniors...

Recently, both the Washington Post ( Bad-News Budget) and the Financial Times ( Fiscal Challenges for a Recovering US) have written excellent...

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...

MacGuineas, Guha, and Wessel on the NEWSHOUR, on the reappointment of Bernanke and the new budget numbers.

CRFB released this report on OMB's Mid-Session Review. (We will soon release a more detailed analysis.) CBO provides a comparison chart between OMB...

Late Friday the White House conceded that ten-year deficits would total around $9 trillion, according to their estimates. This is $2 trillion greater...