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CRFB has just released a new analysis of CBO's updated Budget and Economic Outlook. The CBO updates its baseline every year in January, March, and...

Today, in "The Government We Deserve," Eugene Steuerle wrote an opinion piece about the need for budget constraints alongside health care reforms. He...

The Congressional Budget Office has just updated its Economic and Budget Outlook. We will be releasing a paper on changes to CBO's projections from...

Reports today about the Republican Party's platform committee yields some good news and bad news for tax reform. First, the good news. The Wall Street...

Last week, Social Security celebrated its 77th birthday. But with the surplus in the trust fund due to be exhausted by 2033, its next 77 years face...

Is the Simpson-Bowles plan where the budget debate will eventually end up? The latest edition of the Ripon Forum seems to think so, making the plan...

This afternoon Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID) will join CRFB President Maya MacGuineas in a public discussion at the...

In an op-ed in POLITICO, Campaign to Fix the Debt co-chairs Judd Gregg and Ed Rendell introduce the Campaign and explain its purpose. They start off...

A recent advertisement from the Romney-Ryan campaign claims that “Obama Cut $716 billion from Medicare… to pay for Obamacare.” It continues by...

Nearly a month ago, we tried to dispel the claim that due to low interest rates, borrowing was essentially a free lunch. As we explained at the time...

Yesterday in the Coeur d'Alene Press, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas wrote an op-ed touting the Campaign to Fix the Debt and its upcoming stop in...

Even though the bailout measures past during the recession have, for the most part, ended, cost estimates for many of the bailout programs are still...