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FY 2018 Deficit Was $779 Billion
For Immediate Release The Treasury Department today released a report showing the official fiscal year 2018 deficit was $779 billion, an increase of...
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Treasury: 2018 Deficit was $779 Billion
The Treasury Department today released a fiscal year-end report showing that the deficit for FY 2018 increased to $779 billion, a $113 billion (or 17...
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Chartbook: Budgeting for the Next Generation
This chartbook corresponds to our project " Budgeting for the Next Generation"
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CBO Shows $782 Billion Deficit for FY 2018
Late last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the final FY 2018 deficit. CBO estimates that the deficit increased to...
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A Fiscal Year Defined by $2.4 Trillion In New Debt
Typically, we mark the end of the fiscal year, which will occur on Monday, by reviewing important numbers for the previous fiscal year. This year, one...
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The Progressive Caucus FY 2019 "People's Budget"
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released its “The People’s Budget: A Roadmap for the Resistance” for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, which calls for...
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Maya MacGuineas: Fiscal Recklessness Puts the Next Crisis on Our Doorstep
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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CBO Releases New Economic Projections
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new ten-year economic projections today, updating its projections from April. The latest projections...
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CBO Shows That Policymakers Could Make the Long-Term Outlook Much Worse
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a look at various long-term budget scenarios. Most notably, the report shows how much more bleak...
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CBO’s Alternative Long-Term Budget Scenarios
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released alternative scenarios to its Long-Term Budget Outlook today. These scenarios show that if the recent...
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Maya MacGuineas: National Debt is About to Roar Back to Life as a Pressing Issue
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, published an op-ed with CNN. An excerpt is below. As a result of an...
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Watch the Debt Fixer in Action
We just updated our popular Debt Fixer interactive federal budget tool with new options to reflect recent tax and spending legislation and the latest...