Budgets & Projections
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Adding Realistic Assumptions to CBO's Baseline
CBO's most recent budget projections show debt on an unsustainable path – rising from a post-war record 73 percent of GDP today to 78 percent by 2024...
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CBO Continues to Show Unsustainable Debt Path
In advance of the release of their analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated their budget baseline for...
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Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
The budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
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How the House-Passed Budget Tightens Defense Spending Caps
In our discussion of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget, we talked about one area where the budget actually boosts spending...
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Comparing Debt Under the FY2015 Budgets
Budgets for the upcoming fiscal year have been released from the White House, House Republicans, House Democrats, the Republican Study Committee, the...
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Congressional Black Caucus Releases Budget
Following House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget markup last week and floor debate this week, the Congressional Black Caucus budget...
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Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
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The Republican Study Committee's Alternative Budget
Just after House Democrats released their budget this week, the Republican Study Committee has come out with its own proposal to balance the budget in...
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“Long-Term SCORE Act” Introduced Today
Congressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the...
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House Democrats Release Alternative FY 2015 Budget
This blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...
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Budget Scoring Proposals in Ryan's Budget
Although the primary purpose of a budget resolution is to set spending and revenue levels to govern the consideration of legislation by Congress, it...
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Taking the Long View on the Ryan Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget would substantially reduce deficits and debt over ten years, but one remaining question is what the...