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CBO Report Shows Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Trillion-dollar deficits are coming back in 2025. That's one of the many stories told by the new budget update released today by the Congressional...
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Report: CBO's January 2015 Budget and Economic Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today, showing their budget and economic forecasts through 2025. After...
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Are the Discretionary Spending Caps Sustainable?
The biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving Focus on the Long Term
For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page. The budget...
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We Need To Improve Focus on the Long Term
Today CRFB released a new paper as part of our Better Budget Process Initiative titled " Improving Focus on the Long Term." The budget process focuses...
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Energy and Commerce Holds First Hearing on SGR
The House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Health Subcommittee yesterday held the first of two hearings on the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for...
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CRFB Budget Resolution Principles
One of the first and most important priorities Congress should be agreeing to a budget resolution conference report that lays out a framework for...
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Gene Steuerle: President Obama’s Middle-Class Tax Message in the State of the Union
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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CRFB Livetweets and Fact Checks the State of the Union
Tonight at 9:00 PM, President Obama will address Congress and the nation in the State of the Union address. As he lays out his agenda for this year...