Budgets & Projections
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Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
In a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
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Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
In a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”
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Katherine Gehl & Maya MacGuineas: Debt and deficits rising: Who has courage?
Katherine Gehl, former president & CEO of Gehl Foods, Inc., and a member of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and...
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Breaking Down CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the FY 2017 President's budget yesterday, a document that includes a 16-page report...
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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2017 Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s FY 2017 budget, using its own economic and technical assumptions to...
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CBO Releases Its Own Take on the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of the Fiscal Year 2017 President's budget, finding that under the President's...
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How The March Baseline Reiterates Our Distressing Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) updated March baseline confirms the era of declining deficits is over. This year's deficit is expected to rise...
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CBO Updates The Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its budget projections...
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Releases Alternative to House Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released their “ People’s Budget,” an alternative to the House budget released last week. The budget offers...
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Republican Study Committee Publishes Alternative FY 2017 Budget
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) has released an alternative to the House Republican budget that outlines their vision for the country’s fiscal...
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House Budget Confirms It Takes $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution that advanced out of the House Budget Committee last week keeps up the recent tradition of targeting...
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House Budget Attempts to Set in Motion Savings and Process Reforms
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution released yesterday contains ambitious promises of deficit reduction to balance the budget within ten...