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CRFB Board Member Alice Rivlin's Testimony on the Direction, Drivers, and Dangers of the Federal Debt
Read moreOn September 8, 2016, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board member and Brookings Institution senior fellow Alice Rivlin testified before...
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CRFB Co-Chair Governor Mitch Daniels's Testimony on the Direction, Drivers and Dangers of the Federal Debt
Read moreOn September 8, 2016, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chair and president of Purdue University Governor Mitch Daniels testified before...
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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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How Much Would Trump's New Defense Plan Cost?
Read moreRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump introduced a proposal today to increase defense spending and rebuild the military. Specifically, his...
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Interest Rates Drive Changes in CBO's Latest Outlook
Read moreBy far the biggest revision to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) latest ten-year budget projections are the lower projected interest rates...
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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: The first step towards solving the debt crisis: Stop digging
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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Marc Goldwein: Five Social Security Plans That Really Would Help Make America Great Again
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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Our Quick Take on CBO's August Projections
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released updated baseline projections showing deficits and debt rising in the coming years. CRFB will...
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Report: Analysis of CBO's August 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreBudget deficits are on the rise, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) budget and economic projections released today. CBO projects...
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CBO: Federal Investment is Good for Long-Term Growth - If It's Paid For
Read morePublic investment has the potential to significantly increase economic growth, but only if its paid for – that's the key finding of a recent report...
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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...