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House GOP Budget a Solid First Step, But More Work is Needed
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House Budget Committee released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget resolution Tuesday that calls for balancing the budget over...
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Response to Chairman Hatch’s Call for Feedback on Tax Reform
Read moreBelow is a statement from CRFB submitted to the Senate Finance Committee in response to Chairman Orrin Hatch's request for feedback on potential tax...
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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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Maya MacGuineas: President Trump’s Logic on Social Security is Backwards
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 the 2017 Social Security Trustees Report
Read moreThe 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
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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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2018 Budget
Read moreThe 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
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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Social Security and Medicare Continue Steadily Down the Road to Insolvency
Read moreFor 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
Read moreFor 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
Read moreFor 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?
Read moreWhen the President released his budget in May, the Administration estimated it would reach balance after a decade and reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio...