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Maya MacGuineas: President Trump’s Logic on Social Security is Backwards
Maya 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 the 2017 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees today released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The projections show that...
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CBO Releases Its Own Estimate of the President's Budget
The 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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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2018 Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget, using its own assumptions to evaluate the...
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Maya MacGuineas: White House Video Continues Dispiriting Pattern of CBO Attacks
Maya 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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Social Security and Medicare Continue Steadily Down the Road to Insolvency
For Immediate Release The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today showing that both programs continue steadily down...
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Today’s CBO Report Makes Clear Just How Far the President’s Budget Is from Balance
For Immediate Release Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget. While...
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Strongly Supports the Sanford-Lee and Lee-Jones Amendments
For Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget strongly supports the Sanford-Lee and Lee-Jones amendments to the National...
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How Might CBO Estimate the President's Budget?
When the President released his budget in May, the Administration estimated it would reach balance after a decade and reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio...
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How Committees Could Meet Reconciliation Instructions for Mandatory Savings
(Update 7/20/2017): The House Budget Committe has since released its FY 2018 budget resolution and reconciliation instructions. You can read an...
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The Budget Resolution Should Reduce, Not Increase, the National Debt
For Immediate Release The House Budget Committee is currently working on a fiscal year 2018 Congressional budget resolution. While the budget will...
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Judd Gregg: The Fed Leaps into the Unknown
The Trump administration does not seem to consider the deficit or the federal debt to be much of a concern.