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Growing Health & Interest Spending to Overwhelm Flat Revenue
Read moreCBO'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
Read moreCBO’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
Read moreOur 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
Read moreCRFB 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreCBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...
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A Preview of the Potentially High-Stakes Fall
Read moreLawmakers have dealt with several Fiscal Speed Bumps – budgetary deadlines – throughout the year, but quite a few will appear over the next few months...
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The Gathering Storm: Fiscal Clouds Amass This Fall
Read moreIn early 2015, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) warned of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bumps, explaining “lawmakers will face a...
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Are We Borrowing a Million Dollars a Minute?
Read moreIn talking about foreign aid in the context of his proposed budgets, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the federal government is “borrowing a million...
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Did John Kasich Help Balance the Federal Budget as Budget Chairman?
Read moreDuring the debate, Gov. Kasich pointed to his record as a past House Budget Committee Chairman and his ability to balance the federal budget in that...
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Fiscal FactCheck: The First Republican Debate
Read moreThis blog is the first in a “ Fiscal FactCheck ” designed to examine the accuracy of budget-related statements made during the 2016 presidential...