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CBO Releases Its Own Take on the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of the Fiscal Year 2017 President's budget, finding that under the President's...
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How The March Baseline Reiterates Our Distressing Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) updated March baseline confirms the era of declining deficits is over. This year's deficit is expected to rise...
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CBO Updates The Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its budget projections...
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CBO's Analysis of the Distribution of Taxes
In an appearance on C-SPAN this morning, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas referenced a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis that shows that high...
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Moving on Up: Interest Costs in the CBO Baseline
With the Congressional Budget Office releasing its final baseline last week, we know the dire fiscal future facing the country. Thanks to policymakers...
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Everything You Need to Know About CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
We've published a new chartbook to illustrate the most important facts and figures from this week's report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Report: Analysis of CBO’s January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its January Budget and Economic Outlook, today, adding more detail to a brief summary released on...
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Maya MacGuineas: What CBO’s Debt Projections Suggest About Congress and the Budget Process
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Social Security, Medicare, & Interest Drive 3/4 of Spending Growth
The deficit will grow from less than $550 billion in 2016 to $1.4 trillion in 2026, according to this week's report by the Congressional Budget Office...
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It Could Take $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
Tuesday’s release of the topline numbers for this year's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline is a gut punch to congressional budget writers...
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Our Analysis of CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook Summary
The era of declining deficits is over. That's the conclusion of our analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) January 2016 Budget and...