Budgets & Projections
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What Will Happen If the Government Shuts Down?
Here we go again. With government funding set to expire in one week and no clear plan appearing yet, it is possible that the government will shut down...
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Fiscal FactCheck: The Second Republican Debate
This blog is part of the “ Fiscal FactCheck ” series designed to examine the accuracy of budget-related statements made during the 2016 presidential...
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Is the National Debt $19 Trillion?
Quite a few candidates in last night’s debate mentioned the size of the national debt, but not all were able to do so successfully, with some saying...
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Auerbach-Gale Projections Also Show Unsustainable Debt Picture
Alan Auerbach and William Gale at the Tax Policy Center recently released their frequently-updated budget projections. Their new outlook is familiar...
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Sequester Offset Solutions (SOS) Plan
Download a 1-page summary of the plan. Update 9/16/2015: The appendix was corrected to accurately describe the proposed change to federal employee...
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Growing Health & Interest Spending to Overwhelm Flat Revenue
CBO's recent budget projections show debt growing in the latter half of the decade as deficits widen. Entitlement spending will continue to grow as a...
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Interest Rates Continue to Fall in CBO's Forecast
CBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of legislation...
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Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Our recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...
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CRFB Breaks Down the Newest CBO Budget Projections
CRFB has released its analysis of CBO's latest ten-year budget projections, detailing the important facts from the report and how it has changed from...
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CBO Still Shows Unsustainable Debt in its August Baseline
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from March and economic projections from January...
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Report: Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook August 2015
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing that while short-term...
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Immigration Reform Drives Positive Economic Effects of the President's Budget
CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...