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Understanding the Difference Between Temporary and Permanent in Budget Scoring
This week, Congress will continue to deliberate if and how to continue the “ tax extenders” which expired at the end of 2013. In doing so, both the...
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Ways & Means Considers Extending Business Tax Breaks
The House and Senate appear to be taking different approaches to the " tax extenders" which expired at the end of 2013. Whereas the Senate Finance...
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CBO's Latest Estimate of TARP: $27 Billion
Caught up in the release of CBO's baseline and its analysis of the President's budget last week was another CBO update of their estimate of the...
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Pentagon to Release Afghanistan Requests
With the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan set to wind down at the end of the year, there is some uncertainty about the military presence in 2015 and...
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An Apples-to-Apples Comparison of the FY 2015 Budgets
Every year when the President releases his budget, CBO re-estimates the budget using a baseline set of economic assumptions – the same as it uses for...
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Farm Spending in the April 2014 CBO Baseline
CBO recently released an update to its 2014-2024 baseline including the first detailed agriculture projections since May 2013. Since then, Congress...
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Good News and Bad News for Federal Trust Funds
CBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad news: CBO...
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The President's Budget Against Different Baselines
In our paper on CBO's analysis of the President's budget, we compared how CBO and OMB estimated the budget's policies relative to CBO's baseline. Of...
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How Close Were Our Estimates of the President's Budget?
Shortly after the President's budget was released, we suggested CBO might be somewhat more pessimistic in its debt projections than OMB. Specifically...
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CBO Releases Analysis of the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the President's FY 2015 budget, applying its own budget baseline and methodology to...
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CRFB's Report on CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2015 Budget
CBO has released their analysis of the President's FY 2015 Budget and CFRB released a report summarizing the findings. CBO finds a less optimistic...
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