Budget Projections
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Aging and Entitlements
The U.S. Census Bureau came out with with a report this month on aging in the United States. Not to anyone's surprise, the report found that between...
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CBO's Monthly Budget Review: Higher Deficit than Last Year but with Signs of Hope
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its Monthly Budget Review late last week. CBO reports that the federal government incurred a deficit of...
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Does the Health Care Bill Cost More Than We Thought?
Last week the Office of the Medicare Chief Actuary came out with their " Estimated Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," as...
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Chairman's Mark Reduces Deficit More Than President's Budget
Yesterday the Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) released some highlights of his FY2011 budget blueprint, or Chairman's Mark...
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Public Pension Systems: Avoiding the Hard Choices?
At the Bottom Line we often complain about government officials avoiding hard fiscal choices because of the political difficulty involved. At the...
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Six Months Down: CBO Monthly Budget Review Estimates $714 billion deficit in FY 2010 Thus Far
The Congressional Budget Office issued its Monthly Budget Review yesterday. It estimates that the federal government incurred a deficit of $714...
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Revenues and Outlays under the President's Budget
CRFB has talked a lot about deficit and debt projections over the coming decade, and beyond. CBO's analysis of the President's FY 2011 budget shows us...
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The Costs of Current Policies
This morning, we released our review of CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget, which discusses the budget implications of the President's FY 2011...
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Gimmick, Responsible Budgeting, or Something in Between?
There has been a great deal of discussion about certain parts of the health care bill and whether or not they constitute budget gimmickry (see here...
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Comparing Health Care Reform Bills (Updated Charts and Interactive Graphs)
CRFB has yet again updated its health care comparison chart -- as well as its interactive shareable graphs -- in light of CBO's latest score of the...
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Health Bill Increases Discretionary Spending by At Least $65-$75 billion
When we have discussed health care reform, in the past, we have charted and graphed the effects of the bills on direct spending (general mandatory...
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Costs of Policy Changes under President's Budget
CRFB has updated its comparisons of the costs of the President's proposed policies -- outlined in the President's FY 2011 Budget -- incorporating new...