Budgets & Projections
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How Simpson and Bowles Plan to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
In their new deficit reduction proposal, A Bipartisan Path Forward, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs former Senator Al Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine...
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Comparing the Bipartisan Path to Other Budget Proposals
Earlier today, Fiscal Commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released a new comprehensive debt reduction plan with $2.5 trillion of...
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Simpson and Bowles Release "A Bipartisan Path Forward"
Today, the former co-chairs of the Fiscal Commission, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Erksine Bowles, released " A Bipartisan Path Forward to...
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How The President's Budget Would Look In 2023
Our next blog post in our series analyzing the President's budget will look at where the budget leaves revenue and spending by the end of the decade...
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How Does the President Achieve His Health Care Savings?
Included in the President’s FY 2014 budget proposal is a $400 billion package of health care savings. As we described in our analysis of his budget...
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The Sequester and the Baseline
Since the President's budget was released last week, there has been an ongoing debate over how much it saves. We’ve tried to shed light on this...
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How the President's Budget Deals With Temporary Policies
A common affliction of the federal government in recent years has been the many temporary extensions of certain spending or tax benefits. Because...
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The House, Senate, and President's Budgets: A Comparison
As we mentioned on Wednesday, budget season can often be as confusing as it is clarifying. While it would seem that both chambers and the President...
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The President's Proposed Chained CPI Protections
Much of the early debate surrounding President Obama’s FY 2014 budget concerns his inclusion of the chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI), a more...