Budgets & Projections
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Policymakers Must Not Double-Count Retirement Savings
As budget conference committee chairs Patty Murray and Paul Ryan appear to be moving closer to a partial sequester-replacement deal, reports suggest...
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CBO Predicts the "X Date"
Given the nature of debt ceiling politics lately, estimating when the federal government will start defaulting on obligations has become a common...
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CBO Director Examines Drivers of Health Care Spending Growth
As the conferees met yesterday, any doubt that we can afford to wait on the long-term debt problem should have quickly been erased after CBO Director...
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CBO Takes a Look at the Distribution of Taxes and Transfers
On Monday, we took a look at the breakdown of federal spending and taxes by the type of household, particularly between elderly and non-elderly...
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CBO Director Lays Out Budget Challenges for Conference Committee
At the second meeting of the budget conference committee earlier today, CBO director Doug Elmendorf was on hand to present the budget and economic...
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CBO Releases Updated Budget Options Report
We may have had to wait a little longer due to the government shutdown, but CBO's new budget options report is finally here. Today, CBO released its...
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Op-Ed: With Order Restored, Let’s Act
The Hill | November 11, 2013 For the past three years, Congress has been stuck in a partisan stalemate that has threatened fiscal confidence and...
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Replacing the Sequester With...More Sequester? No Deal
As the budget conference committee works to develop a plan to offset some of the sequester, they may be tempted to use budget gimmicks in place of...
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Round 2: The Conferees Convene
The second meeting of the budget conference committee will happen today at 10 AM Eastern time. The conferees do not have a lot of time, as their...
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CBO Breaks Down the Generational Distribution of the Budget
When talking about the debt, it is hard to avoid also talking about generational inequity. Many groups, especially the Can Kicks Back, have worked to...