Budgets & Projections
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The President's Budget, In One Table
Read moreUpdate: The table and text have been updated to include the baselines in the House and Senate budget resolutions. A common source of confusion when...
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OMB Confirms There Will be a Second Sequester
Read moreLate last week, David Rogers of Politico reported that there will indeed be a "second sequester," or a $1 billion scorekeeping adjustment due to OMB's...
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Ten Things to Look for in the President's Budget
Read moreIt's President's Budget week! On Wednesday, President Obama will release his FY 2014 budget, illustrating another possible path in addition to the...
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At Halftime, FY 2013 Leads FY 2012 $601 Billion to $779 Billion
Read moreCBO's latest Monthly Budget Review (MBR) for March means that we now have budget data for the first six months of FY 2013. The six-month deficit...
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What Will Likely Be In The President's Budget
Read moreThe FY 2014 President's Budget will not be released until next Wednesday, April 10th, but already some details about what will be in the budget have...
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Poll: Americans Favor Compromise on the Budget
Read moreOver the last few weeks, we've seen several different budget proposals emerge from the Senate and the House, and President Obama is expected to...
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Mankiw Agrees on the Target for Deficit Reduction
Read moreFormer Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw explains how a sustainable budget would affect debt levels in a...
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Op-Ed: A Fiscal Deal or a Fiscal Crisis?
Read morePolitico | April 1, 2013 Now that Congress and the president have agreed to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year — removing the threat...
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The Uncertainty of Long-Term Projections
Read moreThe Economic Policy Institute's Ethan Pollack has a blog post questioning the accuracy and ultimate usefulness of long-term (75-year) budget...
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Op-Ed: Short-Term Congressional Budget Fixes Only Prevent Total Disaster
Read moreForbes | March 28, 2013 In a pleasantly surprising move, the normally moribund Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for...
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Alice Rivlin To Receive 2013 Robert M. Ball Award
Read moreCRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin is somewhat of a legend in the budget world, with a long line of work spanning from...