Budgets & Projections
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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...
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Debating Revenue Under Paul Ryan's "Roadmap for America's Future"
A month and a half ago, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his " Roadmap for America's Future," a detailed plan to reform taxes and spending...
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States Face Huge Unfunded Liabilities in Their Pension Plans
On Tuesday, March 9, the New York Times reported about how state and local pension funds are changing their investment strategies to improve their...
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Deadlines Are Made To Be Broken
Here's a good one for you: Using the House legislative calendar as a guide, as of March 10, Congress will have 16 legislative days to enact a budget...
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More Analysis of the President's Budget
On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office released its Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget. (Last week we offered a few graphs and a short...
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The 90 percent Debt-to-GDP Threshold and CBO’s New Debt Estimates
On March 5, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave us a preview of its take on the President’s budget proposals for Fiscal Year 2011 (starting...
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Are Social Security Surpluses Gone for Good?
Along with their analysis of the President's Budget, on Friday, CBO updated its Social Security projections. And as it turns out, the surpluses are...
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‘Line’ Items: Oscars Edition
Temporary Tax Extensions Avoid “The Hurt Locker” – The Senate passed H.R. 4691, a 30-day extension of several expired tax breaks and unemployment and...
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CBO Releases its Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget
This afternoon CBO released its preliminary analysis of the President’s Budget, projecting a significantly worse fiscal situation than the...
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No Gimmicks? Really?
In a blog yesterday and op-ed today, OMB Director Peter Orszag defended the President's health care plan as reducing "deficits by roughly $100 billion...
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Don't Circumvent PAYGO on Jobs Bill
The CBO released an updated cost estimate* of the Senate jobs bill yesterday. This larger bill calls for further increased funding for unemployment...
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Monthly Budget Review Reports $655 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 $655...