The President's FY 2020 Budget Series
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CBO Releases Its Own Estimate of the President's FY 2020 Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its estimate of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO finds that debt in the budget would be on an...
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CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2020 Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget using its own assumptions to evaluate the...
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President's Budget Gets Serious About Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Update: the tables in this post have been updated with estimates from CBO's analysis of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO does not provide specific...
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The White House Projects the Debt Will Fix Itself
The Trump Administration has touted its recent FY 2020 President’s Budget as balancing the budget in just 15 years. However, additional budget...
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Debt Would Rise, Not Fall, Under the President’s Budget
The President’s budget estimates it would reduce debt to 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits to $202 billion (0.6 percent of GDP)...
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Does the President's Budget Slash Medicare by $845 Billion?
President Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget released Monday has been met with significant criticism, especially from us. But one of the most widely...
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An Overview of the President's FY 2020 Budget
Moments ago, President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposals, outlining his tax and spending proposals for the next decade. We...
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Analysis of the President’s FY 2020 Budget
The Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposal today, outlining the President’s tax and spending priorities over the next...
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President’s Budget Would Add More than $10 Trillion to the Debt
For Immediate Release: President Donald Trump released a portion of his fiscal year 2020 budget Monday, which proposes a number of tax and spending...
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What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget
Reports suggest the Trump administration will release its FY 2020 budget in two parts, beginning next week. With debt at post-war record highs...
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Play Debt-O During State of the Union 2019!
President Donald Trump will give his second State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech, providing analysis...
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A 5 Percent Discretionary Cut Still Provides Ample Spending
President Trump has asked each cabinet secretary to propose a plan to cut 5 percent of their agency's budget for next year. Assuming this cut is...