Budgets & Projections
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What's Needed to Balance the Budget and Meet Other Fiscal Goals
With debt projected to rise from 77 percent of GDP today to 89 percent by the end of the decade, our latest estimates find that fixing the debt is...
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How Alternative Policies Could Push Debt Higher
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook shows debt rising from its current level of 77 percent of Gross Domestic Product...
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The 30-Year Outlook Also Looks Gloomy
In addition to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) ten-year budget outlook, the agency also releases 30-year projections for spending, revenue...
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Judd Gregg: The Way Ahead on Tax, Debt and Healthcare
This is a “have your cake and eat it too” moment.
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Mandatory Spending Continues to Drive Spending Growth
The deficit will rise dramatically over the next decade, from about $560 billion at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 to over $1.4 trillion at the end...
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CBO's Budget Projections Show Unsustainable Fiscal Situation
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their baseline projections, showing high and rising debt and widening deficits in the coming years...
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CBO’s January 2017 Budget and Economic Outlook
As President Trump enters his first full week in office, new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections show that he faces an unsustainable fiscal...
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Maya MacGuineas and Stuart Butler Publish Joint Paper Over Long-Term Budgeting
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Brookings Institution senior fellow Stuart Butler published a paper last week outlining a plan to create a long...
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Dave Walker: Washington’s chance to reform the status quo
David Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and is a member of the Committee...
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Maya MacGuineas on C-SPAN’s “Q&A”
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, recently appeared on C-SPAN’s “Q&A” and discussed a variety of topics...
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Budget Will Be Difficult to Balance Without ACA Savings
For the past three years, Republicans have proposed budgets with a goal of achieving balance within the next decade. However, that goal will be much...
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The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
This paper has been updated and is avaible here Over the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of...