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Op-Ed: Memo to Congress, White House: Get Serious on Debt
Politico | February 15, 2013 The continual fiscal brinkmanship of the past two years — in which policymakers go from crisis to crisis, avoiding...
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Third Way Calls for $1.9 Trillion of Deficit Reduction
Today, Third Way has released their analysis of the February CBO Economic and Budget Update, reaching a similar conclusion to our report on the new...
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Senate Democratic Proposal and Other Plans to Replace the Sequester
Update: This post has been updated as of February 27, 2013 to reflect new proposals from the Senate Republicans With time running out before the...
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House Ways and Means Committee Presses Forward
The Hill is reporting that the House Ways and Means Committee will take the next step in creating a broad tax reform plan by announcing 11 separate...
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Our Reaction to the State of the Union
Last night, President Obama delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term. The President's speech covered a wide range of issues...
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Line Items: Year of the Snake Edition
Happy New Year – The Chinese New Year was ushered in over the weekend and 2013 is the year of the Snake. According to at least one horoscope, “This...
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Previewing the State of the Union
At 9:00 PM E.T. tonight, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress. With many fiscal issues left to be resolved in the...
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Prospects for a Permanent Doc Fix Improve
A popular secondary story from the newest CBO baseline centers on the "doc fix," the patch that prevents a large cut to physician payments due to the...
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Report: Our Debt Problems Are Far From Solved
Note: Paper has been updated from original posting to account for new estimate of previously enacted savings.
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The New Target: At Least $2.4 Trillion of Additional Deficit Reduction
President Obama was recently quoted in the Washington Post as saying that an additional $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction would hit the $4 trillion...
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The CRFB Realistic Projections
Analyses of the CBO budget baseline generally focus on the current law baseline, the one that CBO presents in most detail. In the past, we constructed...