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Sources of Spending Growth in CBO's Baseline
CBO's recent budget projections reaffirm that our debt problems are significant. Entitlements are projected to grow, as a result of a retiring...
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How Alternative Policies Could Affect the Budget
CBO's latest budget projections, while a slight improvement, are not good news for the country's fiscal future. Debt is higher than at any time in our...
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Maya MacGuineas: Good Deeds Punished as Crossroads Dings Dems on Debt Plan
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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CRFB Analyzes CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Forecast
Moments ago, CRFB published a new 6-page paper summarizing CBO’s latest Budget and Economic Outlook. Under its current law baseline, CBO estimates...
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Newest Budget Projections Show Gloomy Fiscal Picture
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from April and economic projections from February...
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Report: Analysis of CBO's Updated Budget and Economic Forecast
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing today’s record-high debt...
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Is the 2014 Budget Meeting Expectations?
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is set to update its budget and economic projections tomorrow, laying out the fiscal picture for the next ten...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas August 26 2014
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Inversions Reduce Revenue, But Extenders Cost More
Many policymakers have expressed concern about "tax inversions," transactions where American companies move their headquarters overseas in order to...
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BPC Kicks Off Series on Delivery System Reform
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has kicked off a series of white papers on overcoming the obstacles to delivery system reform with an...
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Can Lawmakers Agree on Postal Reform?
The Postal Service has been losing money in recent years and has needed to cut back on services and raise stamp prices. However, these latest...
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General Revenue & the Social Security Trust Funds
Social Security is often portrayed in one of two ways, either as its own self-contained program (the “trust fund perspective”) or as part of the...