Debt & Deficits
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Fix The Debt Co-Chair Senator Judd Gregg's Testimony on the Direction, Drivers and Dangers of the Federal Debt
Read moreOn September 8, 2016, Campaign to Fix the Debt Co-Chair and former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) testified before the Joint Economic Committee on "Federal...
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Running on Empty? Fiscal Space and the Next Recession
Read moreThe national debt increased dramatically during and after the Great Recession, rising from 35 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2007 to 66...
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Maya MacGuineas: We Can't Borrow Our Way to Prosperity
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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Has President Obama Doubled the National Debt?
Read moreWhile accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump said, "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19...
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Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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Maya MacGuineas: Donald’s dangerous debt-deficit delusion
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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Donald Trump's Treasury Buyback Plan
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made waves in a CNBC interview when he seemed to indicate that he would seek to renegotiate...
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Maya MacGuineas: Dangers in Donald Trump’s Debt Suggestions
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote a commentary that...
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Telling the Whole Story on Interest and Long-Term Debt
Read moreIn a recent blog, New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman criticized Donald Trump's recent suggestion that he'll "negotiate forgiveness on...
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Debt Will Rise Under the Next President
Read moreOur recent updates and analyses of the fiscal policies of Secretary Clinton, Senator Sanders, and Donald Trump show that debt would rise from today’s...
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Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for March recently, so we now have data for the first half of Fiscal Year (FY...
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Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
Read moreIn a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”