Budgets & Projections
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Report: Analysis of CBO's August 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreBudget deficits are on the rise, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) budget and economic projections released today. CBO projects...
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Subject to Change: How Different Parameters Could Affect Long-Term Debt
Read moreUnderlying the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 30-year budget projections are a series of economic and demographic assumptions that are critical...
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Making Trust Funds Solvent Would Just About Stabilize Debt
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows a bleak picture, with federal debt steadily rising from 75 percent of Gross Domestic...
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How Much Would Clinton and Trump Increase Our $19 Trillion Gross Debt?
Read moreOur report Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election estimates that debt held by the public would rise from about $14 trillion...
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Has President Obama Doubled the National Debt?
Read moreWhile accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump said, "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19...
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The Long-Term Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than CBO Says
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt nearly doubling as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 30...
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The Very, Very Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows growing federal debt over the next 30 years, but we extended those projections to 75...
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OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
Read moreThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget baseline...
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CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Fiscal Path
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for the federal...
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Report: The 2016 CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook today, outlining the projected budget picture for the next three...
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Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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Chartbook: Promises and Price Tags
Read moreBelow is a new chartbook with the key figures and graphs from our paper, Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election.