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CBO Continues to Say the Debt Will Be a Problem for Economic Growth
In its February 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook, CBO continued its previous warnings from last year's February outlook and September's long-term...
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Why Did the Deficit Fall in 2014?
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual report on the federal budget, which outlines their projections of all federal spending...
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CBO Director Testifies Before House Budget Committee
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee this morning following CBO's release of the 2014 Budget and Economic...
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CRFB Releases Analysis of CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook, serving as a budget baseline for the new year. To help make...
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CBO Shows Deteriorating Budget and Economic Projections
The Super Bowl was held last Sunday, and the Olympics are coming up in a few days, but the biggest event this week happened today as CBO released its...
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Report: Analysis of CBO’s 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook
Note: The paper's mention of the change in deficits from 2015 to 2024 has been corrected.
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Sources of Spending Growth in CBO's Baseline
The CBO's baseline released today shows how spending is expected to grow over time and where that growth occurs in the federal budget. In general...
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CBO's "Approaches to Reducing Federal Spending on Military Health Care"
Military personnel costs continue to increase as a share of the defense budget. One of the fastest growing components is military health care, where...
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UI Offsets a Good Start, But Fall Short
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released their score of the proposal from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to renew extended unemployment...
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CBO 95 Percent Confident Social Security Trust Fund Runs Out in 25 Years
CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook contains significant amounts of helpful data on Social Security. However, a lot of the data focus on just the outlays...
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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...