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CBO Releases Analysis of President Obama's FY 2014 Budget
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of President Obama’s FY 2014 budget request. CRFB has released a reaction to the...
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The Latest on the Affordable Care Act
Although it may be difficult to get an updated comprehensive score of the Affordable Care Act from CBO, CBO has updated its estimate of the coverage...
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CBO Updates Economic and Budget Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office has released an update to its budget outlook from February. With little legislative changes since February, the...
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CBO Releases Updated Estimate of Farm Bills
Update: This blog has been updated to include numbers from the CBO score of the House farm bill. As we have written previously, the American Taxpayer...
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Op-Ed: Sequester Signals Need for Real Deficit Reduction
Politico | May 13, 2013 It seems the debt deniers are back. If recent news reports are any indication, there is a growing sentiment that after...
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Deficit Reduction Doesn't Need to Be Front-loaded
Regular readers of The Bottom Line are probably familiar with our goal of putting the debt on a downward path as a share of the economy over the long...
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A Roundup of Our Analysis on the Bipartisan Path Forward
Over the last two weeks, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been analyzing the new proposal from former Fiscal Commission co-chairs...
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Expanding Principal Writedowns to Fannie and Freddie
Sometimes, the timing of things can really work out in Washington. Yesterday, President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the head of the...
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User Fees in the Bipartisan Path Forward
Among the many proposals in Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles's new plan, “ A Bipartisan Path Forward,” is the increased presence of user fees for many...
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Education Reforms in A Bipartisan Path Forward
Although most discussion of Erskine Bowles' and Al Simpson's Bipartisan Path Forward has focussed on its health and tax reforms, the plan also...