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US Budget Watch 2020 Will Hold Candidates Accountable for Their Fiscal Promises
For Immediate Release The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched its US Budget Watch 2020 project Wednesday, an initiative to...
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CBO Releases 2019 Long-Term Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its 2019 Long-Term Outlook, again confirming the budget’s unsustainable long-term trajectory...
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CBO's 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Long-Term Budget Outlook, again confirming the budget’s unsustainable long-term trajectory...
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The Long-Term Debt is Out of Control
For Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Long-Term Budget Outlook Tuesday, which warns that today’s high levels of...
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House Should Pass Budget Plan Before Spending More
For Immediate Release The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on “minibus” appropriations legislation combining five...
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CBO: Debt Remains Unsustainable With r < g
The national debt is rising at an unsustainable pace. A factor that helps is interest rates currently being lower than the economic growth rate (r
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Judd Gregg: And the threat is...
J udd Gregg, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2005 to 2007 and ranking member...
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Maya MacGuineas: Federal Disaster Funding Doesn't Have To Be An Emergency
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Tim Penny & David Minge: Our Trillion-Dollar Problem Deserves Bipartisan Attention
Tim Penny is co-chair and David Minge is a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Both are former representatives from the...
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IMF: U.S. Continues to Stand Out with Growing Debt
The United States ranks number one among advanced economies in expected increase of debt as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) according to...
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CBO Finds Rising Debt in the President’s Budget
For Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget Thursday showing the plan...
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CBO Releases Its Own Estimate of the President's FY 2020 Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its estimate of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO finds that debt in the budget would be on an...