Budgets & Projections
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It Could Take $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
Tuesday’s release of the topline numbers for this year's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline is a gut punch to congressional budget writers...
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Our Analysis of CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook Summary
The era of declining deficits is over. That's the conclusion of our analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) January 2016 Budget and...
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Deficits Rise in Latest Budget Projections
Update: You can view our full analysis here. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released baseline projections showing rapidly rising deficits...
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Sanford Says Candidates Aren't Talking About Debt, Deficit
Congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC) wrote a piece in The Fiscal Times that highlights the paucity of substantive discussion from the 2016 presidential...
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CBO's Latest Estimate of the Partial ACA Repeal
Kicking off the new year in style, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest estimate of the reconciliation bill passed by the Senate...
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2015’s Fiscal Follies and Reasons for Hope
It’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal...
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Policymakers Dig Hole $1.2 Trillion Deeper in 2015
With debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end...
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Expectations Vs Reality For the FY 2016 Budget
With the first session of the the 114th Congress rapidly drawing to a close and the big budget issues being settled, we will take a look at how the...
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Omnibus Bill Falls Back on the Usual Budget Gimmicks
The negotiations that concluded this week produced two major pieces of legislation. The most consequential for the budget is the $680 billion package...
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How a Fed Rate Increase Could Affect the Budget
Today, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's interest rate setting and deliberative body that meets eight times a year, could announce that...
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