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Our Top 10 Charts of 2017
Read moreThe year 2017 was a busy time for budget policy as lawmakers considered major legislation dealing with health care and taxes following the...
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JCT Score Shows Tax Bill Would Cost $1 Trillion After Economic Growth
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released its dynamic score of the Senate Finance Committee-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
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New Senate Tax Bill Hides Over $500 Billion of Gimmicks
Read moreNOTE: This is an old version of this analysis based on a version of the bill considered by the Senate Finance Committee. The bill was later modified...
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A Dangerous Effort to Undermine the Work of the Congressional Budget Office
Read moreFor Immediate Release When the House of Representatives considers the so-called appropriations “minibus” for fiscal year 2018, which includes funding...
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Is CBO's Math on the BCRA Wrong Because It Uses Faulty Numbers?
Read moreThe White House tweeted out a video Wednesday saying "the Congressional Budget Office's [CBO] math doesn't add up" because they use "faulty numbers."...
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CBO Releases Its Own Estimate of the President's Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President's budget today. The estimate shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, a much worse...
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Maya MacGuineas: White House Video Continues Dispiriting Pattern of CBO Attacks
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook (June 2017)
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated budget and economic projections today, continuing to show an unsustainable picture of debt over...
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Rudolph Penner: The Attacks On The Congressional Budget Office Are Wrong
Read moreDr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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CBO Releases 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreToday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, extending the agency's budget projections for the next 30...
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CBO’s 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe United States is on an unsustainable fiscal path, according to the Long-Term Budget Outlook released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Dan Crippen: Why the CBO’s health bill numbers matter — even if they’re imperfect
Read moreDan Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the board of the Committee for a...