President's Budget
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Debt and Deficits Under the FY 2016 Budgets
With budget consideration underway this week, the House has passed its own resolution and rejected several proposed alternatives, while the Senate...
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Our Analysis of CBO's Estimate of the President's Budget is Here
We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages...
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CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget is Here
CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and methods to re-estimate the budget. While CBO reveals...
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Report: CBO's Analysis of the President’s FY 2016 Budget
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its re-estimate of the President’s FY 2016 budget, using its own economic and technical...
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Evaluating The Cost of Climate Change
We've written extensively about the President's budget since it was released, both in our analysis of the budget and in our blog series. Also notable...
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The President’s Social Security Proposals
The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget, a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...
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President's Budget Proposes to Completely Wind Down War Spending
President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time, though...
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The President's Budget in 8 Charts (FY2016 Edition)
In addition to a paper and blog series on the President's budget, CRFB has created a number of tables, graphs, and charts focused on specific aspects...
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The Case for "Mindful Austerity"
In a commentary published on Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip wrote about President Obama’s budget and the declaration that it is moving away...
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Dispelling Common Myths in the SSDI Debate
The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...
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The President's Budget Stabilizes Debt Over the Long Term...Maybe
In addition to showing estimates over the next ten years, the President's budget includes in its lengthy Analytical Perspectives section a 25-year...
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PAYGO Kudos to the President's Budget
The President's budget follows the important budget principle of PAYGO, responsibly identifying tax and spending offsets sufficient to pay for new...