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Potential ISIS Operation Shows the Value of Fiscal Space
Read moreRecent events in Iraq and Syria have raised the prospect of expanding military operations in the region beyond airstrikes. Gordon Adams in a Fiscal...
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Sources of Spending Growth in CBO's Baseline
Read moreCBO'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
Read moreCBO'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
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreMoments 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreToday, 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?
Read moreThe 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
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreMany 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
Read moreThe 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?
Read moreThe Postal Service has been losing money in recent years and has needed to cut back on services and raise stamp prices. However, these latest...